Don't forget that as well as joining the main EC LGBTI Organisation Facebook group (details on our contact page if you haven't already), you can also join The Creative Pulse's very own Facebook group, connect with other creative queers in your area and find out about events etc. Feel free to share your art too.
The
refusal of staff at Port Elizabeth Home Affairs to perform a civil
union between Donovan Wynne and Michael Cronje recently, although it
falls within the letter of the law, is unconstitutional. It is also
reactionary; South Africa proudly and justifiably boasts of having one
of the most progressive and liberal constitutions in the world and yet
recently, Port Elizabeth Home Affairs have effectively wiped their feet
on it, displaying an alarmingly conservative point of view.
Visit the Facebook group to connect with the creative side of the ECLGBTI Organisation.
"Creative Pulse allows young people to meet and share their talents. Their objective: is to have an entertainment structure within the LGBT movement, to support and afford those members with opportunity for growth while upholding and sensitizing our communities to the recognition and appreciation of all human rights including for all people contained within the EC LGBTI organisation."
This weekend East London was lucky enough to host its second ever Out in Africa Film Festival ... and a braai too. The photo is of the ECLGBTI Organisation's new banner - look out for it at the Pride March later this year.
These photographs are by Zamanguni Mzimela, the Chairperson of the EC LGBTI Organisation, based in East London. The protest was called for and organised at extremely short notice, flashmob style and the team got organised fast.
Now there's a couch being put to good use. Although the organisation is not a religious one, many members have strong christian beliefs.
Zama
Gentle winter sunshine in the Eastern Cape - a beautiful day for solidarity.
It was a kind of flashmob, I guess - not to mention proof that occasionally, Facebook activism does actually transfer out of the zone of cyberspace and powerfully into what we tend (online) to call "real life." (For more background and photos and an explanation of the agenda, go here)
So East London is sometimes (often) looked down on by the rest of the country for being backwards and stuff ... but sometimes this place can astonish a person very pleasantly indeed. Take our first ever pride mar... Continue reading...
