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This month, South Ai celebrat the anniversary of s pneerg gay-marriage cisn. But the realy on the ground lags far behd the legal suatn.

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On the back of Ghana’s posn of makg love a crime we take a look at untri where homosexual activi are legal, and if such referendum should be held LGBT mpaigners are most likely to w. In the Southern Ain untry, beg a homosexual is not a crime, but the unn between practisg partners has not been legalized by the law while is however silent on .

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While Cape Town tak the crown as the ‘gay-pal’ of South Ai, Johannburg do still offer a vibrant and diverse LGBTQ+ scene.

Other notable LGBTQ+ events clu the Pk Loerie Mardi Gras Knysna, held May; Durban Pri, held June; the Mr Gay South Ai event, held November; and the Out Ai Film Ftival, which occurs both Johannburg and Cape Town, ually September or October. Image: REUTERS/Rogan Ward Rivona PillayGlobal Shaper, Tshwane Hub, Department of Water and Sanatn of South AiShare:Stay up to date:Human RightsLaws on homosexual activy around the world. The provisns on crimal penalti only clu penalti for acts volvg adults, as all natns penalize sexual acts, whether homosexual or heterosexual, volvg children.

More than half of Ai’s 54 natns explicly crimalise homosexualy, wh only 22 offerg legal stat for nsensual same-sex activy, acrdg to data om the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA).

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Homosexualy is not a crime, but gay men are equently arrted and charged wh bchery, immoraly or blasphemy. The legal and social stat of between 400, 000–over 2 ln lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex South Ains has been fluenced by a batn of tradnal South Ain mor, lonialism, and the lgerg effects of apartheid and the human rights movement that ntributed to s Ai’s post-apartheid Constutn was the first the world to outlaw discrimatn based on sexual orientatn, and South Ai was the fifth untry the world to legalise same-sex marriage. Neverthels, LGBT South Ains, particularly those outsi of the major ci, ntue to face some challeng, cludg homophobic vlence (particularly rrective rape), and high rat of HIV/AIDS fectn.

They are ually discsed as homosexual relatnships, though sometim the boy-wiv are discsed the ntext of transgenr Bantu peopl, cludg the Tswana people, and the Nbele people, had tradns of acceptance or difference towards same-sex sexual acts.

There was wispread liberty to engage sexual activy wh both men and IsiNgqumo, the term skana refers to effemate gay men or transgenr people (typilly people born male but who act, drs and behave as female) who have sexual relatns wh men, and jonga refers to mascule gay terurse between men was historilly prohibed South Ai as the mon law crime of “sodomy” and “unnatural sexual offence”, hered om the Roman-Dutch law. Apartheid eraUnr South Ai’s lg Natnal Party om 1948 to 1994, homosexualy was a crime punishable by up to seven years prison; this law was ed to harass and outlaw South Ain gay muny events and polil activists.

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In January 1966, the Fort Town raid on a large party Fort Town, Gteng led to further rtrictns on gay and lbian South Ains. However, until the late 1980s gay anisatns were often divid along racial l and the larger polil qutn of apartheid.

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