Their necks are twisted, their bodies are crushed for muthi and their mothers are told they were stillborn
Activists are speaking out about being intersex to tackle the taboo – and the difficulties people face
Her daughter was murdered but she finds peace by helping parents accept their LGBTI children
Queer people had only the heterosexual space for early lessons in sexual identity
Minority communities visiting Russia in 2018 will be warned about the possibility of attacks
Activists say the ad industry has a prime role to play in normalising the presence of LGBTI people in society
Faced with arrests, and an inability to engage authorities, Egypt’s LGBTI community seeks international support
The same-sex marriage ballot was strongly carried in all states and territories, and won in all but 17 of the 150 electorates.
If the "yes" vote does garner a majority, same-sex marriage could be legalised by the end of the year.
Germany’s top court Wednesday required parliament to recognise a "third gender" from birth.
The arrests took place in Dar es Salaam last Tuesday when the Tanzanian police raided a legal consultation meeting.
Readers write in about the the DA’s unwillingness to march for Muslim women, the Kenyan elections and SAPS explains why they need the SANDF.
Ricky Nathanson speaks to the M&G about her experiences as a transgender woman in Zimbabwe and what happened on the night she was arrested.
Malawi and Zimbabwe’s human rights commissions do not seem up to the task of defending LGBTI people. Others, like Namibia, are
Malawi and Zimbabwe were two of the “countries in the Southern African region [that] had dramatically low levels of tolerance for homosexuals – report
The creators of a new show are bringing queer issues to the fore and into people’s houses to open LGBTI+ dialogue
Jailed in Malawi for her same-sex marriage, she’ll visit her country but never live there
A nongovernmental organisation is taking on the problems faced by transgender pupils at schools
Eusebius writes that naming injustices instead of being silent about them is important for working towards having a just society
Queer activists within the ANC finally have the attention of the ruling party — and are hell-bent on keeping it
The judgment should improve the home affairs department’s attitude to transgender marriages
A group of civil society LGBTI rights organisations are challenging Parliament to help decrease the number of hate crimes nationwide
‘Through video-call sex, I feel safe, I am at home and I just hope that – no screenshots are being taken’
Words in local languages to describe queer people are offensive and in English are inaccessible
The Johannesburg High Court today delivered a ruling declaring comments made in a 2009 column in Sunday Sun as hate speech.
Shifting perspectives as well as transposing characters and concepts, Nwabisa Plaatjie gives a new spin to an old play
Sweden and South Africa are popular destinations for LGBTQ refugees, but both countries are far from perfect
Transgender individuals in conservative small towns are too scared to seek medical treatment
Officials who refuse to marry queer people should put their jobs before their beliefs, say activists.
MxBlouse is simply ‘making music’, but there are LGBTQI+ musicians who are capitalising on the genre
The country’s government has reinforced that queer rights activists will be punished
Activists have red-flagged how the HIV prevention plan for the LGBTI community doesn’t cater for transgender men who have sex with other men