Posted by ulla on Thursday, August 18, 2011,
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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."
Posted by ulla on Sunday, August 7, 2011,
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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.
Posted by ulla on Sunday, May 15, 2011,
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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... Continue reading ...
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
Posted by ulla on Wednesday, June 3, 2009,
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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...