This October will be three years since GaySA Radio was officially launched. To celebrate, they will be hosting a 3-year-old themed party at Pretoria Pride, with the proceeds benefiting the Cotlands children’s charity.

The station started in 2015 with just the four founders, who were soon joined by several volunteers who dedicated their time and effort to enable the first South African internet radio station to broadcast LGBTQ+ content to Africa and the world.

“While it was staffed mainly by volunteers in the first two years, a small permanent team was appointed at the beginning of this year to give more stability to the content delivery and to contribute to real and lasting change,” said station manager Hendrik Baird.

GaySA Radio most famously made an impact on LGBTQ+ people in South Africa by spearheading the campaign to keep gay-hating pastor Steven Anderson and his cronies out of South Africa (and Botswana, and Jamaica!) Their ongoing efforts against Anderson’s acolyte Oscar Bougard also recently contributed to his being found guilty of hate speech, with a suspended sentence.

“And so the third birthday celebration month of October is an excellent time to celebrate GaySA Radio’s successes and introduce some improvements to better serve LGBTQ+ people,” said Baird. These include a longer curated content day on the live stream, more podcast series, and ensuring that the music played is exclusively by LGBTQ+ artists, allies and icons. Read more via Mamba