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Contents:

• DIMAKATSO MOKWENA – AUTHOR OF HERE COM THE GAY KG
• HERE COM THE GAY KG PAPERBACK – 21 JULY 2022
• ‘HERE COM THE GAY KG’ BOOK TACKL REALI OF BLACK GAYS
• HERE COM THE GAY KG
• HERE COM THE GAY KG, DIMAKATSO DAVID MOKWENA
• THE TRAGIC BUT TE STORY OF ENGLAND’S GAY KG
• GAY HISTORY: HERE COM THE GROOM
• 'PRCE & KNIGHT' PUTS A GAY-INCLIVE TWIST ON TRADNAL FAIRY TAL
• HERE COM THE GAY KG
• HERE COM THE GAY KG
• HERE COM THE GAY KG
• THE TRAGIC BUT TE STORY OF ENGLAND’S GAY KG

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 PAPERBACK – 21 JULY 2022

“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.

‘HERE COM THE GAY KG’ BOOK TACKL REALI OF BLACK GAYS

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

Here Com the Gay Kg n be orred om or om Mokwena directly at the st of R330.

Here Com the Gay Kg Paperback – 21 July 2022. - 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.

HERE COM THE GAY KG, DIMAKATSO DAVID MOKWENA

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.

It’s tled, ‘Here Com The Gay Kg’.

THE TRAGIC BUT TE STORY OF ENGLAND’S GAY KG

It tackl the reali of black gay people South Ai.

Wright, her cisn now go to the school board, which will discs the book challenge at s Monday meetg agenda and vote on a cisn on Tallahassee mom who submted the challenge, Katie Lyons, said her dghter, then a send grar at a lol elementary school, brought home the children's book about Kg, a tennis legend who is gay — and also brought qutns to her mother about a page regardg Kg's sexual orientatn. “It is important that be ma clear that this book was challenged not bee the book mentns Billie Jean Kg is gay, ” Lyons told the school board at a meetg last week.

GAY HISTORY: HERE COM THE GROOM

Regardls of orientatn, homosexual or heterosexual, the topic of sexual orientatn is not age-appropriate or velopmentally-appropriate for elementary stunts. "I object to material that discs beg gay and what means to be gay, " wrote page drawg the challenge reads: "Around this time, I realized I was gay.

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

Beg gay means that if you're a girl, you love and have romantic feelgs for other girls — and if you're a boy, you love and have romantic feelgs for other boys.

"Lyons matas the book is ntrary to state law, largely cg the Parental Rights Edutn Act, dubbed "Don't Say Gay" by crics, which prohibs stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty book challenge law:Florida schools stggle to apply new book law which even Shakpeare is 'spect'Why 's beg challenged:Tallahassee mom mak se that 'I am Billie Jean Kg' book 'g' on parents' rightsWright, her July 10 remendatn, unters that the book isn’t ed as “stctn” and poted to a clarifitn the Florida Department of Edutn issued statg that "cintal referenc" books to LGBTQ people are not also said a new law, HB 1069, directed each school district to adopt procs allowg parents to lim their child’s accs to library material. "The excln of one of the profil jt bee of the intifitn of the ma subject as homosexual is not the tentn of any law or statute passed by the Florida Legislature, " Syett Lyons said the parental book review procs is not enough to screen qutnable materials accsible to their stunts.

HERE COM THE GAY KG

When he out to his fay as gay, the te nature of his parents homophobia rears s ugly head, yet peace wants to please them, but he quickly learns he n never please everyone. 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?

HERE COM THE GAY KG

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.

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. gay-history-here--the-groom. “For all the gay parents who have shared the book wh their kids and who have told me they wish they had somethg like this when they were young, I’ve heard om jt as many straight parents who love .

HERE COM THE GAY KG

For all the gay parents who have shared the book wh their kids and who have told me they wish they had somethg like this when they were young, I’ve heard om jt as many straight parents who love . An art historian disvered a 400-year-old portra of Gee Villiers, the former De of Buckgham who is thought to have been the gay lover of Kg Jam VI and I, the Brish ler om 1567 to 1625 who missned a btsellg book known as The Kg Jam Bible.

THE TRAGIC BUT TE STORY OF ENGLAND’S GAY KG

Hovn’s bed ment may be more of a polil metaphor than a leral one — polics do make strange bedfellows, after all — but even still, Richard I has long been lnized as a gay in. The plays of both possibly-gay English playwright Christopher Marlowe and totally-gay English playwright Derek Jarman both picted Edward II as gay. Totally gay.

- Siya Khumalo, You Have To Be Gay To Know God.