Tag Archives: South Africa

President Obama Alludes To LGBT Rights During Speech At Mandela’s Funeral

The funeral is continuing at this writing, see the live video below this post. The Washington Post published the president’s remarks, which included a reference to LGBT rights. It is a question I ask myself – as a man and as a President. We know that like South Africa, the United States had to overcome centuries of racial subjugation. As …

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LIVE VIDEO: Nelson Mandela’s Funeral

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Westboro: We’ll Picket Mandela Funeral

Yeah, let’s see if THIS actually happens.

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Empire State Building Honors Mandela

The Empire State Building was lit in the colors of South Africa’s flag in honor of Nelson Mandela and the Tea Things are very upset about this.

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LGBT Groups React To Mandela’s Death

National Gay & Lesbian Task Force Nelson Mandela was an inspiration to the millions of people who yearn for freedom across the world. With great personal sacrifice, he fought Apartheid and state-sanctioned racism. His principled approach, his willingness to reach out to former enemies, led to the introduction of multi-party democracy and real change in South Africa. Indeed, South Africa’s …

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Nelson Mandela Dead At Age 95

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TRAILER: Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom

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UN Unveils LGBT Rights Campaign

The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights today unveiled a global LGBT rights campaign at a meeting in South Africa.  The campaign is called Free & Equal. The multi-pronged campaign — announced at a news conference in Cape Town, South Africa — will include videos and public-service announcements distributed through social media, a new website, a …

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Updated Global Marriage Map

After last week’s first gay wedding in France, the Agency France-Presse posted the above map.

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Christian School Tells Gay Couple To Break Up Or Their Son Will Be Expelled

A private Christian high school in a northern province of South Africa has told a married lesbian couple that they must break up or their son will be expelled. Legally married Samantha (27) and Kally Mabe (26) told The Star newspaper that they were called to a meeting with the principal of Secunda Highveld Christian School and were told their …

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Updated Gay Marriage Map

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Marriage Equality Nations

(Via JMG reader Thomas)

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SOUTH AFRICA: Government To Offer Combination HIV Med For $10 Per Month

In what is being called a revolutionary development in the treatment of HIV, the South African government will begin offering a daily three-in-one anti-retroviral pill that will cost only $10 per month. In South Africa, where 5.6 million people live with HIV/AIDS, treatment options were bleak at best — until now. The country has announced a new regimen that combines …

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SOUTH AFRICA: Christian “Gay Cure” School Guilty Of Human Rights Violation

The South African Sunday Times reported in January that a local Christian school was advertising that it could “cure” students of homosexuality. Creare founder Cornelius can Heyningen denied that the institution was discriminatory. “We are catering for those who say ‘I want to change as a homosexual’. That’s not saying no homosexuals are allowed.” He compared the academy’s stance on …

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SOUTH AFRICA: Gay Couple Marries In Traditional Zulu Ceremony

According to the below news report, this was the “first traditional African wedding ceremony” ever conducted for a gay couple.

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Today In Christian Love

“I believe that Oscar Pistorius is cursed for openly supporting homosexuals. According to the Holy Word of God, homosexuality is an abomination to God, and any person who supports homosexuals are doomed for hell.” – South African Pastor Oscar Bougardt, telling his Facebook followers that God made Pistorious murder his girlfriend because he’d made an It Gets Better video.  But …

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SOUTH AFRICA: Oscar Pistorius Removed From It Gets Better Project

The It Gets Better Project is set to launch in South Africa this week and organizers say they will not be using a video message recorded for them by Olympian track star Oscar Pistorius, who stands accused of murdering his girlfriend. The campaign, which is to be launched at the Cape Town Holocaust Centre at 7pm, has the support of …

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SOUTH AFRICA: Lesbian Beaten Unconscious By Security Guards After Kissing Girlfriend At Shopping Center

A South African lesbian woman says she was beaten unconscious by shopping mall security guards after they saw her kiss her girlfriend goodbye. “I accompany her to work every morning,” said Khanyisa Ndoda, 21. “And every morning I give her a goodbye kiss. “But as we kissed that day, we heard these guys saying ‘Some people will never reach heaven’ …

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Oppression Spawns Gay Marriage?

New York Times columnist Frank Bruni points to an interesting theory on why same-sex marriage has become legal in some rather unexpected places. It was only a little more than a decade ago that a country first legalized same-sex marriage, and that happened in precisely the kind of forward-thinking, bohemian place you’d expect: the Netherlands. About two years later, Belgium …

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Rugby To Beefcake To Opera

(Tipped by JMG reader Piet)

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