Pride of Brighton – Still Needed
Brighton’s Pride Festival has now turned 18 years old. Last weekend, Tim Smillie watched his home town transformed into an oasis of joy in what is still a desert of intolerance.
South America Leads The Way
In contrast with Africa, Latin America is adopting a much more progressive attitude towards same-sex partnerships. Gareth Allen reports on Argentina.
Anglican Alternative Reality
As the Anglican Church lurches closer to homophobic, misogynistic self-destruction, Gareth Allen draws a comparison with the real world.
Pasikali Kashusbe – One Forgotten Man
A tragic story from Uganda as the climate of homophobia stoked by American anglicans claims yet another victim. Gareth Allen.
Success In Senegal, Failure in South Africa
The African comment is suffering from an epidemic of HIV/AIDS. As the world’s attention turns to South Africa, Tim Smillie looks at that nation’s failure to adequately fight the disease. Comparing South Africa to Senegal, he demonstrates that government action is key to protecting a country’s population from illness.
Glimmers Of Sanity From Malawi
Good news from Malawi as President Bingu wa Mutharika pardons Steven Monjesa and Tiwonge Chimbalanga. Credit is due to Ban Ki-moon who visited the President today.
African Homophobe-in-Chief
On Monday, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo made a public statement supporting the conviction of the two gay men in Malawi, and condemning homosexuality as an abomination, before comparing it to bestiality.
African Attitudes To Homosexuality
Across Africa, homosexuals are being intimidated, beaten and murdered. Elsewhere, they are being arrested and imprisoned by their state. In 38 of 53 African nations, homosexual acts between consenting adults are against the law.
Cameron Brings In The Homophobic Troops
The furore over Philippa Stroud continues as Iain Duncan Smith appoints her a Special Adviser.
For Richer or Poorer
There has been a lot of pushing and shoving in the last few days about marriage, about whether marriage is the best way to raise children, and whether the state should bribe people to enjoy the blissful loving state of marriage.