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While Pride Month is commemorated at different times across South Africa, the month of June carries particular significance as the original Pride Month in the Northern Hemisphere. File Photo
LGBTQIA

Queer Pride in (South) Africa – from Stonewall to ‘stonewalling’

While Pride Month is commemorated at different times across South Africa, the month of June carries particular significance as the original Pride Month in the Northern…

  • Pierre Brouard
  • Thembisile M. Dlamini
5 min read
The size of South Africa’s LGBTI market — comprising lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people — contributes at least R250 billion to the economy every year. (RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP via Getty Images)
BILL OF RIGHTS

Pride is a heavy price to pay

While constitutionally protected, the LGBTQIA+ community is being failed by the state

  • Nico De Jager
5 min read
DIAMONDS AND PEARLS

Prince of hits: The Purple One’s Top 10

Today Prince would’ve turned 64. To celebrate this legend, we narrow his canon down to 10 of his best songs.

  • Rifumo Mdaka
7 min read
(RODGER BOSCH/AFP via Getty Images)
BISEXUAL

OPINION | Pride month: Social attitudes still have a way to go

Let us celebrate this event together and move towards a fully inclusive world.

  • Amukelani Maluleke
4 min read
Abigail Phiri demonstrates sensory play with candle wax. (Photo: Siphumeze Khundayi for the Gerald Kraak Anthology, 2018)
BISEXUAL

We’re queer and we’re fucking here

Just in time for Pride Month, a mythbusting guide to queer sex for the straight guy (and gal)

  • Tiffany Mugo
7 min read