2010 has just emerged, foetus-like from the bloody hips of 2009 and surely South Africa is thinking about things beyond soccer?  And us queers, where are we? 

Well, I'm guessing most of us are still in closets.  Iconic lesbian website After Ellen's round up of lesbians who came out in 2009 includes a whole one South African i.e. Melanie Lowe.  Whether or not you like her music, if you're one of those fabled and privileged queers with plenty of disposable income, please go buy at least one of ...

Driving through the city the other day, one of the newspaper headline posters yelled, "TV'S GAY KISS!" from the side of the road.  My rantometer just blew up instantly.  It's not as if it was the first such headline, it certainly won't be the last.  Every time there's a gay kiss on TV (here and in the UK, at least), the media has a field day.

Why?

Gay marriage is legal now.  And surely it isn't news that queers kiss?  Well obviously it is.  For all the irritating heterosexuals who go around pon...