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TRANSGENDER CHARACTER FOR US SOAP: The US soap series, All My Children, will introduce an ongoing transgender character and storyline this week.
MALE SEX WORKER JAILED FOR MURDER: A male sex worker has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for the grisly murder of his client in Cape Town.
GLA IMPLICATED IN CRIME WEBSITE: A Cape Town politician says that he will ask police to investigate the man behind the Crime Expo website, alleged to be the leader of the GLA.
JOHN QWELANE’S HOMOPHOBIA “APPALLING”: Gay media organisation, GEM, has slated another homophobic article by veteran journalist John Qwelane.
UN DECRIMINALISATION CAMPAIGN PLANNED: The International Day Against Homophobia is leading a major campaign for a UN Resolution which will decriminalise homosexuality.
US MILITARY: HOMOSEXUALITY A “DEFECT”: The US military has again sparked outrage by classifying homosexuality as a defect.
WE’VE COME A LONG WAY BABY!: Parliament has approved historic legislation that will give same-sex couples the right to marry. But the process revealed the vast antagonism towards gays and lesbians still prevalent in our country.
STEFAN LUDIK: MAMBA’S SEXIEST MAN: The votes have been counted, and Stefan Ludik has taken the title of Mambaonline’s Sexiest Man of 2006 – as decided by you. We talk to the man about his career, his gay fans and same-sex marriage.
IRAN: GAY MAN EXECUTED: Reports claim that a gay man has been publicly hanged in Iran for sodomy.
GOVT ARV’S: PEOPLE STILL DYING: SA's Ministry of Health has confirmed that close to 6,000 HIV-positive people had died while receiving antiretrovirals since the government rollout began in 2004.