http://www.lgbtqnation.com News, Opinions, Arts and Culture | The Nation's LGBTQ News Magazine Sat, 25 May 2013 20:50:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/04/still-no-justice-for-murdered-south-african-lesbian-activist-noxolo-nogwaza/ http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/04/still-no-justice-for-murdered-south-african-lesbian-activist-noxolo-nogwaza/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:30:52 +0000 [mnathan] http://www.lgbtqnation.com/?p=89522 Wednesday marks the two year anniversary of the brutal death of Noxolo Nogwaza, a South African lesbian and LGBT rights activist. In 2011, 24-year-old Noxolo, organizer of the Ekurhuleni Pride Committee, was murdered in South Africa, while on her way home from a night out with friends. Her attackers raped, repeatedly beat and stabbed her, apparently because of her sexual orientation, before dumping her body in a drainage ditch. Two years after her death, no progress has been made into the investigation of her murder...]]> http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/04/still-no-justice-for-murdered-south-african-lesbian-activist-noxolo-nogwaza/feed/ 6 http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/02/when-harvey-met-sally/ http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/02/when-harvey-met-sally/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:00:08 +0000 [mnathan] http://www.lgbtqnation.com/?p=76351 Had Harvey Milk lived he might have been the one to set the benchmark for full equality, something our LGBT movement has yet to do. Harvey did not survive and never had the opportunity, yet his legacy has provided inspiration to so many. What remains often untold and so profoundly significant is Harvey’s absolute insistence on the imperative of full inclusion within the gay movement itself...]]> http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/02/when-harvey-met-sally/feed/ 1 http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/01/david-kato-remembered-a-hero-then-and-a-hero-now/ http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/01/david-kato-remembered-a-hero-then-and-a-hero-now/#comments Sat, 26 Jan 2013 18:00:34 +0000 [mnathan] http://www.lgbtqnation.com/?p=74434 David Kato advocated for the freedom of LGBTI Ugandans and for their right to their natural born sexual orientation in a heightened climate of hostility and homophobia ... Today on this second anniversary of the death of Kato, his friends, comrades, human rights defenders, and LGBTI people around the world are expressing their love, comforting each other and extolling the virtues of this great hero, with comments, memories and prayer for the peace of his dearly departed soul.]]> http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/01/david-kato-remembered-a-hero-then-and-a-hero-now/feed/ 3 http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/01/federal-judge-considers-dismissal-of-suit-against-anti-gay-pastor-scott-lively/ http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/01/federal-judge-considers-dismissal-of-suit-against-anti-gay-pastor-scott-lively/#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:00:19 +0000 By Melanie Nathan[e]Special to LGBTQ Nation[m] http://www.lgbtqnation.com/?p=71927 A crowd of U.S. LGBT activists, holding signs outside the Hampden Federal Courthouse in Massachusetts, braved the early morning cold to support Uganda’s LGBTI community in the first case of its type on U.S. soil, where opening arguments commenced today in a motion for dismissal by anti-gay pastor Scott Lively.]]> http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/01/federal-judge-considers-dismissal-of-suit-against-anti-gay-pastor-scott-lively/feed/ 3 http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/01/scott-lively-argument-set-for-next-week-as-persecution-of-gays-escalates-in-uganda/ http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/01/scott-lively-argument-set-for-next-week-as-persecution-of-gays-escalates-in-uganda/#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2013 05:00:50 +0000 By Melanie Nathan[e]Special to LGBTQ Nation[m] http://www.lgbtqnation.com/?p=71563 When Scott Lively, the founder of Christian Evangelical group Abiding Truth Ministries journeyed to Uganda to incite the persecution of gays, he had no idea that his mission would lead to a lawsuit by Ugandans, on U.S. soil, charging that he had committed crimes against humanity.]]> http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/01/scott-lively-argument-set-for-next-week-as-persecution-of-gays-escalates-in-uganda/feed/ 9 http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/10/south-africa-first-to-recognize-gay-flag-as-an-official-national-symbol/ http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/10/south-africa-first-to-recognize-gay-flag-as-an-official-national-symbol/#comments Sun, 07 Oct 2012 01:00:58 +0000 By Melanie Nathan http://www.lgbtqnation.com/?p=64464 The South African government has announced in the official Government Gazette that Gay Flag of South Africa has been approved and accepted as South Africa’s official gay flag (an adaptation of the international gay flag and the South African national flag).]]> http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/10/south-africa-first-to-recognize-gay-flag-as-an-official-national-symbol/feed/ 13 http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/06/murder-suspect-arrested-in-brutal-slaying-of-lgbt-volunteer-in-south-africa/ http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/06/murder-suspect-arrested-in-brutal-slaying-of-lgbt-volunteer-in-south-africa/#comments Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:00:48 +0000 By Melanie Nathan http://www.lgbtqnation.com/?p=56847 A suspect has been arrested in the brutal murder of Thapelo Makuthle in Kuruman, near Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa.]]> http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/06/murder-suspect-arrested-in-brutal-slaying-of-lgbt-volunteer-in-south-africa/feed/ 4 http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/06/police-in-uganda-raid-workshop-on-gay-rights-arrest-lgbt-activists/ http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/06/police-in-uganda-raid-workshop-on-gay-rights-arrest-lgbt-activists/#comments Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:00:52 +0000 By Melanie Nathan http://www.lgbtqnation.com/?p=56322 Police in Kampala, Uganda on Monday raided a gay rights meeting and arrested several LGBT activists gathered at the Essela Hotel in Najjeera, a Kampala suburb, accusing the participants of “propagating gay issues in Uganda.”]]> http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/06/police-in-uganda-raid-workshop-on-gay-rights-arrest-lgbt-activists/feed/ 6 http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/05/memorial-day-includes-gay-and-lesbian-americans-while-the-law-does-not/ http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/05/memorial-day-includes-gay-and-lesbian-americans-while-the-law-does-not/#comments Mon, 28 May 2012 16:30:48 +0000 [gayusa] http://www.lgbtqnation.com/?p=54835 While all Americans have a right to serve openly in the military, without regard to sexual orientation, thanks to the repeal of the ‘Don’t ask don’t tell’ law, LGBT servicemembers still suffer rampant discrimination with regard to marriage equality, green card sponsorship of binational partners or spouses and a host of other missing benefits caused by lack of equality under the civil law of the U.S.A.]]> http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/05/memorial-day-includes-gay-and-lesbian-americans-while-the-law-does-not/feed/ 13 http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/05/tyler-clementi-gets-no-justice/ http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/05/tyler-clementi-gets-no-justice/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 16:30:42 +0000 [mnathan] http://www.lgbtqnation.com/?p=53765 Tyler Clementi was bullied to death and the Judge heard guilty 288 times, yet sentenced his convicted antagonist to 30 days, 300 hours of community service and a $10,000 donation. While I do not doubt that Ravi was put through a measure of hell, knowing that he could be sentenced to a maximum of ten years and be the subject of deportation, I ask why this Judge even bothered to sentence him, at all.]]> http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/05/tyler-clementi-gets-no-justice/feed/ 39 http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/05/south-africas-constitutional-review-of-its-sexual-orientation-rights-is-shocking/ http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/05/south-africas-constitutional-review-of-its-sexual-orientation-rights-is-shocking/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 15:00:37 +0000 [mnathan] http://www.lgbtqnation.com/?p=52559 Since the end of Apartheid and the inception of South Africa’s new constitution some twenty years ago, the country has been lauded for its lead on the entrenchment of anti-discrimination rights that renders it one of the few in the world to protect sexual orientation and gender identity in its Constitution. Gays and lesbians (LGBTI) enjoy full equality in South Africa. Notwithstanding this South Africa has never managed to escape the brutality of rampant homophobia which is underscored by the high incidence of so called “corrective” rape in its townships, the deployment of an anti-gay ambassador to homophobic Uganda, and its failure to lead the decriminalization of homosexuality in the rest of Africa.]]> http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/05/south-africas-constitutional-review-of-its-sexual-orientation-rights-is-shocking/feed/ 2 http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/04/wise-up-dustin-lance-black/ http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/04/wise-up-dustin-lance-black/#comments Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:00:15 +0000 [mnathan] http://www.lgbtqnation.com/?p=52164 The moment I saw Dustin Lance Black’s headline in the Hollywood Reporter all my admiration came a-tumbling. While one cannot disregard the work of the screenwriter turned activist and its impetus on marriage equality, his latest critique of President Obama, and worse yet its luminous abode engorges like an unwelcome cloud on a sunny day. As an activist in the community, I want to clearly disassociate myself from the ominous loom of Black’s threatening blur...]]> http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/04/wise-up-dustin-lance-black/feed/ 5 http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/03/muslim-lesbians-fight-deportation-in-canada-in-fear-of-honor-killing/ http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/03/muslim-lesbians-fight-deportation-in-canada-in-fear-of-honor-killing/#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:30:31 +0000 By Melanie Nathan http://www.lgbtqnation.com/?p=48972 TORONTO -- An Arab-Israeli lesbian couple, who fled to Canada from Israel in fear of death at the hands of their Muslim family have been told they can remain in Canada for another chance at receiving asylum.]]> http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/03/muslim-lesbians-fight-deportation-in-canada-in-fear-of-honor-killing/feed/ 14 http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/03/ugandan-gay-rights-group-files-lawsuit-against-american-evangelist/ http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/03/ugandan-gay-rights-group-files-lawsuit-against-american-evangelist/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:30:13 +0000 By Melanie Nathan http://www.lgbtqnation.com/?p=48419 A Ugandan gay rights group on Wednesday filed suit in federal court in Massachusetts against notorious American evangelist, Scott Lively, accusing him of violating international law by inciting the persecution of homosexuals in Uganda. ]]> http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/03/ugandan-gay-rights-group-files-lawsuit-against-american-evangelist/feed/ 22 http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/02/father-of-gay-soldier-killed-in-afghanistan-campaigns-for-minnesota-legislature/ http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/02/father-of-gay-soldier-killed-in-afghanistan-campaigns-for-minnesota-legislature/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:30:07 +0000 [mnathan] http://www.lgbtqnation.com/?p=47224 Jeff Wilfahrt is an unassuming man who has more than served his citizenry. He testified before the Minnesota state legislature against passing a constitutional amendment defining marriage as "between a man and a woman only," supported the repeal of "Don’t Ask Don’t Tell." and lost his son in an American war. ]]> http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/02/father-of-gay-soldier-killed-in-afghanistan-campaigns-for-minnesota-legislature/feed/ 8 http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/02/historic-mr-gay-world-billboard-erected-in-central-johannesburg/ http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/02/historic-mr-gay-world-billboard-erected-in-central-johannesburg/#comments Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:30:23 +0000 By Melanie Nathan http://www.lgbtqnation.com/?p=47189 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Excitement hit the gay community in South Africa on Monday, when the first ever gay billboard went up in Johannesburg in advance of the upcoming Mr. Gay World competition.]]> http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/02/historic-mr-gay-world-billboard-erected-in-central-johannesburg/feed/ 6