JOB VACANCY: COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
Posted on: 21 February 2010OUT Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender (LGBT) Well-Being is a progressive Non-Governmental Organisation working towards ensuring the rights of LGBT people and the provision of appropriate services.OUT is based in Pretoria and North West Province and provides direct services, conduct research and have mainstreaming and advocacy programmes. OUT wishes to fill the following position starting 1 April 2010: A Communication Officer responsible and overseeing multiple marketing/communications projects.
The successful candidate will be responsible
for:
• Database management
• Graphic design and
creative input
• Web design and management
• Co-coordinating and
evaluating marketing strategies
• Liaise with other marketing
specialists
Please [click here] to download full advertisement.
GALA IS SEEKING TO FILL THE POSITION: ADMINISTRATOR
Posted on: 15 February 2010Closing date applications: Friday, March 12, 2010
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA) is a non-profit organisation that has as its main objective the promotion, protection and advocacy of the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people in South Africa.
We are looking for an administrator who is dynamic, politically aware, creative and professional in order to help the organisation achieve its goals.
Requirements:
- Matric with a recognized tertiary qualification in administration or five-years equivalent experience in administration;
- Good organisational skills;
- Writing skills;
- Good interpersonal skills;
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions;
- Ability to handle sensitive and confidential enquiries; and
- Knowledge of human rights issues.
We will be giving preference to female candidates from previously disadvantaged groups.
[click here] to download full advertisement.
CALLING FOR UGANDA TO ABANDON ANTI-HOMOSEXUALITY BILL 2009
Psychological Society of South Africa25 February 2010
The Psychological Society of South Africa Issues Statement Calling for Uganda to Abandon Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009; Invites Mental Health Professionals Around the World to Endorse
THE CT PRIDE FESTIVAL DETAILS ANNOUNCED
OUT Staff Writer18 February 2010
Organisers of the Cape Town Pride Festival announced all details of this 2-weeks-long event
MR. GAY SOUTH AFRICA™ CHARL VAN DEN BERG CROWNED WORLDWIDE MR. GAY 2010 IN OSLO!
Coenie Kukkuk15 February 2010
Charl said from Oslo just before the finale started: “The competition is very tough, but I am confident.”
MR. SOUTH AFRICA™ 2009 LEAVES FOR OSLO TO REPRESENT SOUTH AFRICA GAY
Coenie Kukkuk09 February 2010
On Monday night, Charl van den Berg, Mr. Gay South Africa 2009, left for Oslo Norway, to represent South Africa at the Worldwide Mr. Gay competition (previously known as Mr. Gay World). Charl is accompanied by chaperone Wilco Stemmet, of Bone Wear, one of the major sponsors of Mr. Gay South Africa™ as well as being one of the sponsors of Worldwide Mr. Gay – a first for a South African company.
GAYS APPEAL TO ZUMA ABOUT QWELANE
Elanor Momberg for IOL24 January 2010
The Lesbian and Gay Equality Project has appealed to President Jacob Zuma to withdraw the appointment of columnist and self-confessed homophobe Jon Qwelane as high commissioner to Uganda.
JWG REJECT THE PROPOSED APPOINTMENT OF HOMOPHOBIC JOURNALIST JON QWELANE AS AN AMBASSADOR
Emily Crawen19 January 2010
The Joint Working Group (JWG), a network Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) organizations throughout South Africa are deeply disturbed by reports over the weekend reportedly confirmed by the Department of International Relations and Cooperation that Jon Qwelane is to be appointed as an ambassador. We are even more disturbed by suggestions that he may be sent to Uganda where a brutally homophobic piece of legislation is being debated at this time.
NEW ERA IN AIDS BATTLE
Xolani Mbanjwa for Pretoria News02 December 2009
"Let today be the dawn of a new era." With these words, President Jacob Zuma yesterday drew a line under the Aids denialism of South Africa's recent past and announced plans to expand access to treatment for people living with HIV and Aids while urging every citizen to help curb infection rates.
JOBURG ROCKS TO THE BEAT OF PRIDE 2009
Joburg Pride Gay Festival Company04 October 2009
An estimated fifteen thousand gays and lesbians – and their friends and families – descended on Zoo Lake Sports Club in Johannesburg on Saturday morning to celebrate the 20th annual Joburg Gay Pride Parade.
JOBURG PREPARES TO CELEBRATE PRIDE
Pride Committee01 October 2009
The organisers of Joburg Pride have called on all LGBTI people and their friends, families and supporters to attend the 2009 Pride Day to ensure that our community is loudly heard amidst the growing chorus of voices threatening to diminish the equality that we have secured since 1994.
SEE 'PEDRO' WITH PRIDE
Joburg Pride23 September 2009
Joburg Pride is hosting a special fund-raising screening of the new film "PEDRO": written by the Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Milk". This exclusive premiere takes place at Cinema Nouveau Cedar Square (Fourways, Joburg) on Thursday 24th September.
UGANDA: ANTI-GAY BILL TO GO BEFORE THE PARLIAMENT
OUT Writer22 September 2009
According to a source, an "increasingly authoritarian Ugandan regime" is dedicating considerable ressources to a Bill, which blantantly violates Human Rights.
R400 000 IN PRIZES IN THE MR GAY SOUTH AFRICA COMPETITION!
Juan C. Lerm22 August 2009
Today, 22 August, sees another round of regionals in the Mr Gay South Africa Competition, in Bloemfontein at Club Buzerant. The event starts at 9pm.
COUNTDOWN TO JOBURG PRIDE 2009 BEGINS!
Pride 09 Committee19 August 2009
Joburg Pride Organising committee calls for floats, stalls, events and advertising in the Pride Guide
BOLD MOVE FOR BEELD
OUT staff23 July 2009
Beeld Plus plans to publish special feature pages on the Gay and Lesbian community from August 4 2009. It will be published first Tuesday of every month.
OUT-LGBT WELL-BEING SUPPORTS THE PINK JACARANDA MUSIC FESTIVAL
Staff Writer15 July 2009
Arcadia, Tshwane, 13 July 2009 – OUT-Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender (LGBT) Well-being will be playing a major role at the Pink Jacaranda Music Festival at the Voortrekker Monument’s Amphitheatre on 15 August 2009.
"YOU NEED PRIDE" EVENT TO TAKE PLACE ON 3RD OCTOBER
Joburg Gay Pride Festival Company08 July 2009
Organisers of Joburg Pride, Africa's oldest gay and lesbian event, have announced their theme for 2009: YOU NEED PRIDE.
PRETORIA'S PINK MUSIC AFFAIR THIS AUGUST
Fulvio De Stefanis [fulvio@pinkjacaranda.co.za]03 July 2009
Pretoria celebrates its Rainbow Community this August with a day of music, entertainment and fun for the whole family at the Voortrekker Monument's Amphitheatre.
PROCLAMATION SIGNED BY THE US PRESIDENT, BARACK OBAMA
THE WHITE HOUSE04 June 2009
Read full text of the proclamation.
JWG DISGUSTED BY HOMOPHOBIC STATEMENTS MADE BY COSAS PRESIDENT WESLEY KGANG
Issued by Emily Craven, JWG Co-ordinator30 May 2009
The Joint Working Group (JWG) are deeply disgusted by the comments made by Wesley Kgang the President of the Congress of South African Students in which he stated that Western Cape Premier Helen Zille was “not a woman but suspected of being a lesbian”.
LAUNCH OF THE “WORLD APPEAL AGAINST TRANSPHOBIA AND FOR THE RESPECT OF GENDER IDENTITY”
Stephen Barris15 May 2009
Every day, almost everywhere around the world, Transexual, Transgender, Intersex people face violence, abuse, rape, torture and hate crimes.
