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The Creative Pulse

Posted by ulla on Thursday, August 18, 2011, In : Creative Pulse 
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."


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Out in Africa Weekend

Posted by ulla on Sunday, August 7, 2011, In : East London 


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.

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EC LGBTI Hits the Front Page!

Posted by ulla on Monday, May 16, 2011, In : Protest Action 
Click the image for the full story from today's Daily Dispatch.



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East Londoners Protest the Rape and Murder of Lesbians and Transgender People

Posted by ulla on Sunday, May 15, 2011, In : ECLGBTQ Forum 
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...
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EC LGBTI Organisation, Saturday 5th March 2011

Posted by ulla on Sunday, March 6, 2011, In : EC LGBTI Meetings 





Members (activists!) signing up

Zamanguni Mzimela (Chairperson) & Mfundi Joseph

Mpho (East London Representative) & meeting facilitator



Zikhona

Asa

Phiwe (Campuses Representative), Tu, Gail Kirchmann (Additional Representative), Asa, ?, Mfundi Joseph, Yolanda, Zikhona

Mvuyi Kona (1 in 9 Campaign)

Nombasa, from the World AIDS Organisation, who facilitated the meeting & executive elections

Zama

Tabisa Sityana













Meeting about to start ...

Proposal re executive

Phiwe (Campuses Representative)



? & Thobeka



These...

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Adding Eastern Cape Voices to the LGBTQI Struggle

Posted by ulla on Thursday, March 3, 2011, In : EC LGBTI Meetings 

some members of a new activist organisation, incl yours truly. i need a haircut.

my butch friend, mfundi, from the Eastern Cape LGBT Forum. i LOVE this photograph, i’m very proud of it.

my my my gail! mine!

zama, my homo homie from nshongweni in kzn. also ECLGBT Forum.

leigh ann, serious transgender activist

dawn, from the Coalition of African Lesbians

the eastern cape’s the most impoverished, most marginalised province in south africa. there are challenges not only...


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Club Eden Relaunch November 2010

Posted by ulla on Thursday, March 3, 2011, In : Club Eden 

Welcome to Club Eden – it’s my local queer club. Sally and her staff and family and friends renovated it and threw a party to celebrate.

Note the apple in the dancefloor tiles there – eden – geddit?

As ever, it’s a complete mix of queer and not so queer revellers.

Some of them are beautiful.

The owner is Sally Prins – butch dyke extraordinaire.

They’ve got two bars – this was my view of one of them.

Pieter is Philip’s boyfriend – he’s gorgeous too...


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Club Eden - The Beauty Pageant 2009

Posted by ulla on Wednesday, June 3, 2009, In : Club Eden 


I've been so busy processing and uploading photographs of Saturday night's Gay Beauty Pageant at East London's Arts Theatre, that I almost forgot I should write about it all before the memories fade from your minds and mine.  The event sold out fast and the crowd, it has to be said, was fantastic.  The evening was relaxed, vibey and fun - the audience was also really mixed, reflecting the fact that East London's one and only gay club, Club Eden, is really mixed too.  As backwards as this East...

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