By Agatha Kerunga So a year ago I met the one I thought I would spend the rest of my life with. The one I nearly risked it all for. The one I was willing to come out to my family for (and risk being killed by my daddy and clan). Life imprisonment, especially with the […]
By Zan “Buddhist?” *insert supporting raised eyebrow here* But isn’t that for white people? Plus, don’t they pray to that statue of the fat dude?” These are the questions I get the minute something even remotely religious comes up. I’ve been asked these questions so often that I cannot help but giggle at their confusion. […]
By Lame I love the word Lesbian. It rolls of my tongue so smoothly and lands gently into the ear of the next person. ‘Lesssbian.’ It sounds like a whisper. A sexy secret that makes you blush and giggle. I love the word lesbian! From the moment I knew I was a lesbian, I told […]
By Germaine de Larch All images are self-portraits by Germaine de Larch. I will not be protesting the cancellation of Joburg Pride this year (2013). I believe that given the debacle of last year, any thinking queer or LGBTI person would have boycotted this year’s event anyway. I will attend Soweto Pride, as I believe […]
By Florence F Khaxas/ @Flo8try I am so glad that you don’t get to see the battles I fight in the comfort of my heart speaking the words that I vowed not to voice this a war between my mind and my heart and I care to much not to let it hurt you But it is […]
By GayKindaLove At the peak of that luminous day The angry sun presented her discoveries to whoever dared to lend an ear Her nemesis was to be tormented to lifelessness, she anticipated. The sun finally uncovered the secrets of the dark, she boasted. Fruitlessly she spoke of how the night relied on the moon to […]
Ok so we’re done with the feelings… well the romantic ones anyway ( unless you fancy yourself the next Lord Byron). This time around we want you know who YOU are and how you express yourself. It’s the season of swag, mojo, moguls and mavericks. It’s the season of You Doin’ You. What’s your thing? […]
By Muhle I always thought that a love full of excitement, fulfilment and joy was only in the movies. This was after I had been in a 15 year relationship with my now ex-husband. When I met her everything changed. See, I was struggling with these feelings of attraction to the same-sex. I was brought up […]
Pride 2013 was, as ever, a beautiful scene of colours, music, dancing, marching and of course topless white men. This year’s Pride theme was Stand Up and be Counted and there were so many beautiful people (see: women) out there to celebrate pride. It was good to see something other than the usual assless chaps […]
By Njoki “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” – Paul, In the Letter to the Galatians (Chapter 5 Verse 1.) On the 14th of Feburary Hon. William Ruto, Member of Parliament for Eldoret North constituency, called […]