Just months after a Tunisian presidential commission recommended the decriminalization of homosexuality, the North African nation has its first openly gay candidate for president: Mounir Baatour. Baatour, 48, is a lawyer and president of both the Tunisian Liberal Party and Association Shams, Tunisia’s main […]
Tag: Africa
Karl Rove Gets A Divorce
Guess which former senior advisor to George W. Bush just got divorced in Texas? If you guessed Karl Rove, you're absolutely correct. Rove was an outspoken opponent of marriage equality, and now the defender of the "sanctity of marriage" has divorced his wife of twenty-four years. […]
Elton John Looks To Africa For Adoption
Elton John and partner David Furnish were told they were too old and too gay to adopt a baby boy in the Ukraine as found a child they loved, but decided to not adopt after finding out he had grand-parents and siblings. Good luck to […]
Hillary Clinton Snaps!
The video of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton snapping on an African student has been making the rounds lately and touching off a lot of debates. Hillary lost her cool after a student asks for her husband's opinions, instead of her own. Turns out the […]
The Pope Talks Nonsense About Condom Use
If you haven't heard by now, Pope Benedict XVI has stated that condoms are not the solution to the AIDS epidemic in Africa, even with the knowledge that 22 million people are living with HIV within the continent. He declared, "You can't resolve it with […]
Could Madonna Lose Her Adopted Son?
Two years ago Madonna traveled to Malwai to adopt a son named David, and now his biological father, Yohane Banda, wants him back! He recently spoke to the Australian Herald Sun and said, “If there’s no love in the family, there’s no love for my […]
New Study Shows Circumcision May Not Stem HIV Infections for MSM
Studies in the past had found that circumcision can help to reduce the transfer of HIV by about half in heterosexual partners, but the same may not be true for homosexuals engaging in unsafe sex. The Journal of the American Medical Association published a study […]