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A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
A ernment that implemented and quantified s missn of separatens wh a radil fervor did not target homosexual dividuals until 1968, nearly twenty years after the apartheid's ceptn. A foc will be on the LGBT dividuals whose liv were affected by anti-homosexual legislatn durg the apartheid and their ntug fight to w equal treatment. This study will exame the legalistic history of Lbian Gay Bisexual Transsexual life South Ai by explorg relevant legislatn and their effects on the liv of LGBT people.
Most nomatns of Christiany rejected homosexualy sce was emed the Bible to be unnatural and a s: "Levic 18:22 do not lie wh a man as one li wh a woman; that is ttable. In keepg wh the grandse rhetoric of Aikaner natnalism, the apartheid ernment believed that if South Ai wanted to avoid the fat of ancient Rome, and Greece, mt mata s Christian pury and avoid homosexual bchery, sce sexual viance would lead to the downfall of South Ai (Retief, 1995).
Homosexualy was a mon occurrence the gold m of South Ai durg the 1950s and 1960s (and even now) (Dunbar Moodie, Vivienne Ndatshe and Brish Sibuyi, 1988). Although the men argued that they turned to homosexualy as a last rort, some chose to extend their stay at m rather than return home orr to be wh their "me wiv".