A new survey reveals the countries perceived to be the safest for LGBTQ+ travelers. In August last year, we (gaycities.com) carried information on an inaugural listing drawn up by A3M Global Monitoring for the ITB Berlin travel trade show.
My naam is Morné Dieperink, ek is in 1994 in Bethal, Suid-Afrika, gebore en het in die dorpie Meyerton grootgeword.
Speaking in his cover interview with Attitude, Jetten called on the public to remain resilient and reject the harmful messages being spread by the far right.
Tim Curry‘s Rocky Horror Picture Show legacy may be legendary, but his response to questions about his love life is iconic.
Yayoi Kusama, one of the world’s most celebrated and best-selling artists, has died age 97, according to a statement on the artist’s official website.
The singer/songwriter leaves a scientific legacy more should aspire to.
Born Timothy James Curry in 1946, the legendary actor passed away at his Los Angeles home in August 2026.
Poland’s government says it will continue recognising same-sex marriages performed elsewhere in the European Union, despite the country’s Constitutional Tribunal declaring the registration process unconstitutional.
I missed the regular mischief Kevin and I got up to, but we were both getting older. Somehow, we had managed to keep a friendship alive since birth despite attending different schools.
A Smithsonian curator refuses to let this administration erase queer history. As a civil servant, Katherine Ott took an oath to uphold the Constitution. To them, that means preserving queer history.
Dolly Parton, who rose from humble beginnings to the greatest heights of American music and became one of the country’s most philanthropic, unifying and beloved stars, died Tuesday in Nashville, according to a family statement. She was 80.
Our family, neighbours, friends and members of our congregation surrounded us with extraordinary kindness in our grief after losing my dad, Nick. He was our handyman, mechanic, fearless protector and patient listener, quietly teaching us how to find peace through his down-to-earth philosophy of simply being.
Steam locomotives captured my imagination long before I understood that my father was quietly shaping my own journey.
Forty-four per cent of Americans disagree with the scientific fact that a person living with HIV on effective treatment cannot pass it on sexually. That finding comes from GLAAD’s sixth annual State of HIV Stigma report, released on 20 August with Gilead Sciences, based on a survey of 2,500 adults.
Terrence Stamp, who died aged 87 in August 2025, is set to return for the sequel posthumously.
Writer and director Chris Urch won the 2025 Best British Short Film Award for Blackout, starring former Attitude cover star Mawaan Rizwan.
LGBTQ+ people are not new to Ghana, he says, and are loved by God.
Everything to know about the new cast and characters. Many of the new cast members of the queer hockey series have been announced, but who are the characters they are playing? Let’s break it down.
Neanderthals and Denisovans interbred with modern human ancestors, leaving behind telltale DNA in our genomes. Now we have evidence of modern human interbreeding with two much older but unknown ancestors.
The actor jokes that his hit horror indie makes him “glad I’m not heterosexual”.
The analysis shows that a majority of LGBTQ+-identifying adults are below the age of 35.
People given the experimental vaccine with standard treatment lived longer without their cancer returning, the companies reported this week.
I got hooked on the vibrant energy of Johannesburg’s pulsating nightlife, but bankrolling my trips to heavenly places became an obstacle.
Friends suggested finding lucrative work as a waiter or barman in Cape Town where sex appeal counted. My interviews were brief, and once my potential employer discovered that it could speak, ‘It’ got the job.
More than 2,000 people sign within 48 hours as campaign sparks a wider conversation about LGBTQ+ rights, democracy and the meaning of family.
Senegal’s crackdown on LGBTQ+ people continues, with 71 people referred to a criminal court following a mass arrest operation amid the country’s escalating criminalisation of same-sex intimacy.
Europe’s seas are warming at an ‘alarming’ rate – and climate change is largely to blame. That’s according to a new report by the World Weather Attribution, which warns that the waters surrounding Europe are heating faster than the climate as a whole.
Stephen Fry and the late Christopher Hitchens debate Catholics on this subject. Possibly one of the best debates on Catholicism in history.
A Tasmanian Government Inquiry has found LGBTQ+ students are disproportionately the targets of bullying and receive insufficient support.
For decades, raving has been written off as pure hedonism – a night of loud music and letting loose. But a growing body of neuroscience and psychology research suggests something more interesting is going on beneath the surface.
Join Alan Samons for an inspiring introduction to kintsugi — the beautiful Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with veins of gold.
Russia has reportedly censored the late Pope Francis’ book Hope: The Autobiography to remove any mentions about his stance on LGBTQ+ issues.
Scientists call for occupational radiation protections for all aircrew members. Flight attendants and pilots face the highest risk of death from radiation-related cancer, even higher than nuclear technologists, a new analysis of over 500 occupations reveals.
Speaking on Jon Dean’s All Out podcast, Angelina Jolie’s brother recounted an Oscars luncheon where a winner followed him into the bathroom.
A date change has unexpectedly turned into a social media spat after Pretoria Pride and Jacaranda Pride moved their scheduled events in Centurion to the same day in October.
More than a celebration, WorldPride Cape Town 2028 will bring together communities, activists, artists, organisations and visitors from across the globe to celebrate progress while advancing conversations around equality, inclusion and human rights.
In an age of quick fixes and instant gratification, sewing offers something increasingly rare: a slow, deliberate, hands-on process that rewards patience.
As more people turn to GLP-1 weight-loss medications, a subculture rooted in rejecting narrow beauty standards faces its latest evolution.
Opinion: Filmmaker and HIV advocate Micheal Ighodaro explains why his new TV series centers Black and brown queer lives at a moment when hard-won progress against HIV is under threat.
Queer directors refuse “Harry Potter” work over JK Rowling’s transphobia. The queer women just said no to HBO’s new series that’ll make a fortune for its transphobic author.
My instincts were right when I arrived 15 minutes later with my little surfer A-Team Ford Escort panel van at Driftsands Drive, Humewood, 300 metres from Kings Beach, Port Elizabeth, where so much joy awaited. The sexiest silver sports car was parked in front of the garage. Admiring the car, I noticed to my surprise that it was a Mazda RX 7.
