Help ensure Steve Hofmeyr accounts for his hate speech

mambaonline.com:

The Pretoria-based OUT LGBT-Well Being is raising funds to ensure that Steve Hofmeyr faces the Equality Court and accounts for his dangerous anti-LGBTIQ+ rhetoric. OUT, along with the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), is one of the complainants in the Equality Court case filed against Hofmeyr in June for what they argue amounts to hate speech.

The SAHRC is asking that he issue a full public apology, donate R500,000 to an LGBTIQ+ group and do community service. OUT said in a statement that right-wing singer must be held accountable for spreading anti-LGBTIQ+ lies and misinformation by telling his hundreds of thousands of social media followers that the LGBTIQ+ community supports people who engage in bestiality and suggesting that the community aims to sexually “groom” children through inclusive representation and education.

As recently as September, Hofmeyr continued to attack the LGBTIQ+ community who he claims want “access to women’s vulnerability and other people’s children”. “His comments perpetuate falsehoods that LGBTIQ+ people are sexual deviants who pose a danger to children,” said OUT. “In a country where dozens of LGBTIQ+ people are murdered every year because of their sexuality or gender identity, these dangerous and false claims only serve to fuel discrimination and violence against our community.” The organisation has secured an advocate to represent it in the Equality Court case.

He has agreed to provide his services ‘pro-bono’ (at no cost) but he is based in Gauteng. Therefore, OUT will be responsible for all costs incurred for his travel, food and accommodation in Gqeberha, where the case was lodged.