The Cape Town-based Inclusive and Affirming Ministries (IAM) is celebrating its 30th anniversary as one of Africa’s leading drivers of queer faith inclusion. The organisation champions true diversity ...

One hundred days after his brutal assassination, Imam Muhsin Hendricks and his legacy of love and resistance were honoured at a powerful ceremony in Cape Town.

MEPs call for EU funds suspension On Wednesday, a group of 60 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) also sent an open letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen urging the EU to ...

Judge Thandiwe Mahlangu, presiding over the matter, stated: “I want to hear everything, then make a decision. This matter must be settled once and for all.” The case was postponed to 28 July 2025.

Faith, Justice and Queerness in a Time of Rising Threats “The time for going at things alone, that time’s over. We need to get organised,” said Prof Charlene van der Walt, Act Church of Sweden This ...

Ghana’s oppressive anti-LGBTQ+ bill is back on the legislative agenda, sparking renewed alarm among human rights defenders and LGBTQ+ communities in the country. On Tuesday, the Speaker of Parliament, ...

The claim that queerness is “un-African” or a Western import is a deeply harmful myth used to justify homophobia, discrimination, and even violence across the continent. Yet, this notion is not only ...

The judge’s response stirred something in me. With quiet authority, she said: “I want to hear everything, then make a decision. This matter must be settled once and for all.” Her words carried a deep ...

It now appears that the third Pan-African Conference on Family Values will be hosted in South Africa in 2027, with the backing of Errol Naidoo, a longtime anti-LGBTIQ+ advocate in the country. “During ...

The presence of South Africa’s Errol Naidoo—head of the Family Policy Institute and a former member of the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP)—further underscores the regional ties fuelling the ...

“The big headlines about the UK and Hungary draw attention, but democracy is being eroded quietly across Europe, like a thousand paper cuts,” said Katrin Hugendubel, ILGA-Europe’s Advocacy Director.