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Contents:

• DIMAKATSO MOKWENA – AUTHOR OF HERE COM THE GAY KG
• HERE COM THE GAY KG
• GAY HISTORY: HERE COM THE GROOM
• HERE COM THE GAY KG
• HERE COM THE GAY KG
• THE TRAGIC BUT TE STORY OF ENGLAND’S GAY KG
• EDWARD II - THE GAY KG
• ‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
• 'PRCE & KNIGHT' PUTS A GAY-INCLIVE TWIST ON TRADNAL FAIRY TAL

DIMAKATSO MOKWENA – AUTHOR OF HERE COM THE GAY KG

Dimakatso Mokwena is the thor of the new South Ain queer novel, Here Com the Gay Kg. Mokwena intifi as a black gay man, a Christian, and a dad. He has only recently add thor to the list wh the publitn of his first novel, Here Com the Gay Kg.

The story centr around Peace, a gay man om the village who liv the cy.

Peace has been chosen by his anctors to lead his people, however, there are obstacl to his ascensn to the throne: he is a gay man who is love wh Thomas, his muny are ambivalent towards havg a gay kg, and, on top of that, he is required to marry his brother’s widow orr to take the throne.

HERE COM THE GAY KG

“I believe you n still embrace your Ain inty while livg your life as a gay person. Here Com the Gay Kg not only explor the tribulatns Peace and Thomas’s relatnship and how they al wh the challeng, but also tackl tradnal Ain views of homosexualy. While the novel is sentially a love story, also dips to cultural elements and seeks to smash stereotyp surroundg homosexualy black tradnal society.

“Increasgly, we are seeg more gay people takg learship posns, ” says Mokwena, “The msage I want to nvey is that you n be gay and still be kg whout havg to give up your cultural inty. “More gay people are g out to own and accept themselv.

GAY HISTORY: HERE COM THE GROOM

In the ral muni ’s kd-of accepted – as long as you don’t say you’re gay, or show that you’re gay.

HERE COM THE GAY KG

There is still this ia that beg gay is un-Ain or that ’s a whe person thg, ” Mokwena explas, “But Modjadji the Ra Queen had wiv. I believe you n still embrace your Ain inty while livg your life as a gay person. He addrs homophobia and femism his work – whout even g those terms.

Here Com the Gay Kg n be orred om or om Mokwena directly at the st of R330. - Siya Khumalo, You Have To Be Gay To Know GodWhen Peace reluctantly agre to her his late brother’s widow Mma Mogale, his relatnship wh long-time boyiend Thomas is head for a llisn urse.

There were already vultur poised for an opportuny to stroy their love nt and seemgly idyllic liftyle and now may be their, Peace is torn between the morn rporate life he and Thomas are livg Tshwane and his sty as the village chief wh his roots a nservative fay where heterosexualy is a given and homosexualy nmned as fuels the tensns between him and Thomas, the man he regnis as his te love, as Thomas battl wh the stctn for Peace to her a bri. Peace is trapped between appeasg his fay’s wish and followg his heart, but when tragedy strik, Peace mt fd ways to embrace his sty that the fay and village may not regnise as Com the Gay Kg explor the labyrth of gay life wh s bety and plexi a post-apartheid South Ai, while takg rears on a journey across the breath-takg landspe that nstut this untry. The New Republic, 28 Augt 1989, Andrew Sullivan, "Here Com the Groom: A (nservative) se for gay marriage" is nsired by many to be a semal moment gay history when a factn, albe a small factn, the nservative movement embraced the ncept of marriage equaly.

HERE COM THE GAY KG

gay-history-here--the-groom. - Siya Khumalo, You Have To Be Gay To Know God. Yet, Peace is torn between the morn rporate life he and Thomas are livg Tshwane and his sty as the village chief wh his roots a nservative fay where heterosexualy is a given and homosexualy nmned as un-Ain.

Here Com the Gay Kg explor the labyrth of gay life wh s bety and plexi a post-apartheid South Ai, while takg rears on a journey across the breath-takg landspe that nstut this untry. In our md, Edward II is always the gay kg, so we feel some sort of affectn for him jt on that basis. Was Edward II gay?

Marlowe is wily accepted to have been gay. This wasn’t the first time that he’d addrsed gay relatnships his work, but Edward II was the most explicly and sympathetilly gay character that Marlowe had tackled. But while the Netherlands, which 2001 beme the first untry to legalize gay marriage, has paved the wave for a queer royal to officially wear the crown, LGBTQ people have long been dog so unofficially.

THE TRAGIC BUT TE STORY OF ENGLAND’S GAY KG

(The term “cut sleeve” remaed a Che phemism for male homosexualy for centuri. The liph’s sexualy has been the source of some bate: Acrdg to the French medievalist Évariste Lévi-Provençal, the phrase “hubb al-walad, ” found 16th-century historian Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari’s pendium "Nafh at-Tib" reference to Al-Hakam II, translat as a “preference for boys, ” though other scholars mata refers to paternal Medieval Europe scholar Francis Prado-Vilar wrote that knowledge of Al-Hakam’s homosexualy the urt of Córdoba “enuraged the ambns of the factns gathered around his much younger brother, Prce al-Mughira.

EDWARD II - THE GAY KG

”“In his youth his lov seem to have been entirely homosexual, ” queer studi scholar Louis Crompton wrote “Male Love and Islamic Law Arab Spa.

Young as “​​the most proment homosexual figure the early morn perd.

‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS

)“To the shock of many urtiers, the pair were monstratively affectnate to each other public, spe Jam’ var proclamatns agast homosexualy, ” Daniel Smh wrote “Love Letters of Kgs and Queens.

'PRCE & KNIGHT' PUTS A GAY-INCLIVE TWIST ON TRADNAL FAIRY TAL

Frerick the Great of Pssia (1712 - 1786)Even his lifetime, this Pssian royal was wily mored to be a homosexual, though that term wouldn’t be ed till nearly 90 years after his years after the kg’s ath, his physician Johann Ge Rter von Zimmermann published a book which he sperately tried to dispel gossip Frerick had a “Grecian taste love.

And rather than let that secret out, Frerick pretend to be gay, “so that he would ntue to appear virile and pable of sexual terurse, albe wh men.

But he did ltle to obscure his sexualy: Sanssouci, his palace Potsdam, was filled wh homoerotic art and, across Europe, “l Potsdamists” beme slang for kg allegedly pursued the Veian philosopher Franc Algarotti and even famed French philosopher Voltaire, who lived wh him at Sanssouci, though ’s not certa if eher relatnship was Voltaire’s ath 1778, a mancript of his memoir tailg Frerick’s homosexual tennci tail was stolen and published the Netherlands. ”The archde spent the rt of his life secln at Klsheim Palace near Salzburg, where he died at the age of 76 1919, three years after his brother’s ath and one year after the Atro-Hungarian Empire was dissolved after the end of World War II of Buganda (1868 - 1903)Discsn of Uganda’s treatment of homosexualy ually settl on Print Yoweri Meveni’s “Kill the Gays” bill, but this 19th century kabaka, or kg, of Buganda allegedly had sexual relatnships wh men along wh his 16 1886, Mwanga II orred the btal torture and aths of dozens of urtiers and pag, wh many burned alive. “I hear there was homosexualy Mwanga’s palace, ” Meveni told a crowd of thoands on Martyr Day 2010, the Atlantic reported.