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." Continue reading ...
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. Continue reading ...
EC LGBTI Hits the Front Page!
Click the image for the full story from today's Daily Dispatch. Continue reading ...
East Londoners Protest the Rape and Murder of Lesbians and Transgender People
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 ...
Adding Eastern Cape Voices to the LGBTQI Struggle

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... Continue reading ...
Phillip Webb - Mr Gay East London 2010
Posted by ulla on Thursday, March 3, 2011,
In :
Club Eden

That’s Philip Webb, who is 2010′s Mr Gay
East London. I photographed him on Friday night at Club Eden’s
relaunch. Eden’s the only queer club in town and it’s just had a major
facelift.

Wouldn’t he be just gorgeous to photograph in a studio?

Such a beautiful boy.
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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... Continue reading ...
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... Continue reading ...
Mr/Ms Club Eden 2009 - The Judges
Posted by ulla on Sunday, May 31, 2009,
In :
Club Eden
Stardate 30 May 2009. The venue: Arts Theatre, East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa. I took 708 photos and I haven't sorted them all out yet - I also want to post them within various categories, so I'll be updating them soon. I don't have pictures of all of the judges here, for example - I'm not sure I photographed them all, but I know I have pics of at least one more of them, so.. watch this space. Or something.
 Henri Gunkel - androgyne, genderfuck.   Zamanguni Mzimela - my homo homie fro... Continue reading ...
Club Eden's Uniform Party
Posted by ulla on Saturday, May 2, 2009,
In :
Club Eden
 That's Sally there in the construction gear - she runs Club Eden in Arcadia, East London and last night i.e. Saturday 1 May 2009, there was a uniform party ... Sally's apparel, darlings, was especially appropriate for Workers' Day.  That's Anna behind the bar in schoolgirl style. By the way, East London's a little city and Club Eden, although marketed as a gay club, is frequented by a very mixed crowd.  That's the shooters bar - everyone who dressed up got a free shooter.  Sally and Jackie - const... Continue reading ...
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