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Report reveals ongoing arrests of LGBT people in 32 countries: Arrests and prosecutions for consensual same-sex sexual acts and diverse gender expressions continued to take place around the globe in 2023.

Join the Rainbow Christmas Drive: With the festive season approaching, several LGBTQIA+ groups are embarking on a campaign to bring joy to underprivileged South Africans.

Queer Music: S’BO GYRE releases modern Kwaito Gospel banger: Fresh off his success with Nkoli: The Vogue Opera, queer musician S’BO GYRE collaborates with Dali Danger on a feel-good Kwaito Gospel song.

First queer law clinic recognised by Legal Practice Council: An LGBTIQ+ advocacy group has officially been designated as a Law Clinic by the Legal Practice Council in Gauteng, a first in South Africa.

Regional trans equality conference set to take place in Cape Town: The 6th Regional Trans Health, Advocacy, and Research Conference will explore strategies to secure trans and gender-diverse equality.

Russia: Bid to define LGBTI+ activism as an “extremist” movement: The government of Russia is attempting to label efforts to secure LGBTI+ rights as "extremist," a move towards further outlawing LGBTI+ activism.

Queer Music: Peter Ngqibs unveils new album “WDYS?”: South African Born, USA-based and proudly out Peter Ngqibs, a rising star in the music realm, is making waves with his new album, WDYS?.

Trans Day of Remembrance: Alarming trends in global transphobic violence: It's been revealed that 320 trans people were reported murdered around the globe in the last year, but this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Kids of gay dads via surrogacy do better than other kids: A new study comparing gay dads (via surrogacy) and heterosexual parents (via old-school conception) reveals that kids of gay dads thrive.

Top cop’s queer novel wins prestigious literary award: Colonel Dimakatso Mokwena’s queer novel Here Comes the Gay King has been awarded the prestigious K Sello Duiker Memorial Literary Award.