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Sex shaming isn’t something that has been foreign to me but since I started using PrEP, I have noticed how it has become common for people to make comments and assumptions about your sex life because you’re ‘on the pill.’…
Though I grew up overweight, I chose to not be defined by it, and though I was coming to terms with my own body, stretch marks and all, I didn’t realise that I played a negative role in the way…
It’s the romance related question that is as old as time itself and many a love story has been made or destroyed by the answer. “Are you top or bottom?” It seems to be the question that has many people…
There has always been a lot of stigma around mental health, especially in the African context, but the biggest problem we have is not learning more about it and not knowing how to identify the symptoms. Mental Health Awareness Week…
We are raised in a society where the standard of perfection is set by the muscles, beautiful instagram pictures and fitness-oriented lifestyles of the few. We have forgotten to look in the mirror and appreciate what we have, because let’s…
Gay love stories highlighted by both straight and LGBTQ media people hardly ever show images of gay black couples. When one looks in the media, you never see any posts on Black Queer Love because the face of Queer we…
If you go down to the woods today, you better know what it takes to charm the bears. Bears have become one of the fastest growing gay subcultures globally, and whether you are amused by parts of gay subculture being…
Man the fuck up! How many times have you heard those words said out loud to you? Grow a pair of balls! Be a man, for crying out loud! Must you be such a Pansy? I remember a video on…
A recent study by OUT LGBTI Wellbeing together with the Love Not Hate Campaign found that 41% of gay men in South Africa know someone who has been discriminated against or murdered because of being homosexual. Our communities need to…
I look in the mirror and there’s a knot in my stomach because of the bit of padding that I see on my stomach. I am nowhere near obese and actually weigh less than the average person my height, but…