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Contents:
- A GAY-FRIENDLY GUI TO CAPE TOWN
- GAY MEN, LEISURE SPACE AND SOUTH AIN CI: THE SE OF CAPE TOWN
- CAPE TOWN GAY TRAVEL
- GAY LANGUAGE CAPE TOWN: A STUDY OF GAYLE - ATTUS, HISTORY AND AGE
- GAY SOUTH AI
- 10-NIGHT CAPE TOWN GAY PRIDE
- CAPE TOWN GAY BARS
A GAY-FRIENDLY GUI TO CAPE TOWN
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(Samantha Rers)The Unfulfilled Promise of LGBTQ Rights South AiThe untry has some of the most progrsive laws the world, but refuge fleeg homophobia elsewhere often fd a untry that is morally nservative, hostile, and profoundly ’s Note: This article is part of a seri about the gay-rights movement and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall TOWN, South Ai—On a recent foggy morng, Ndodana board a mib and traveled more than 20 to the Ivan Toms Centre for Men’s Health to llect his ee HIV meditn.
The gay-iendly clic li a predomantly whe neighborhood of Cape Town, wedged between a strip of rtrants, upsle hotels, and the V&A Wateront, a major tourist bimonthly trip is a long one and, on the surface, unnecsary: Mfuleni, the impoverished township where he rents a room, has s own HIV-treatment center.
This legal environment is unmatched on a ntent where lonial-era laws agast gay sex are still monplace, and where offenrs some natns face the ath penalty.
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Cape Town advertis self as Ai’s gay pal, wh dited nightclubs, film ftivals, and pri a rult, many LGBTQ people om across the ntent make their way here.
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The rights promised on paper South Ai rema out of reach for many who need them most, particularly those fleeg homophobia elsewhere. In 2011, the jtice mistry tablished a task force to tackle the phenomenon of “rrective rape, ” routely meted out to lbian women and trans men to “cure” them of homosexualy.
Rearchers and activists say that this unrcuts South Ai’s reputatn as a haven for gay rights, a narrative enthiastilly promoted by the ernment and so-lled pk-tourism operators.
“They’ll ask you to prove that you’re gay, ” said Ethan Chigwada, a PASSOP staffer who ped om Zimbabwe 2015 after sufferg years of physil and sexual abe at the hands of fay members.
GAY LANGUAGE CAPE TOWN: A STUDY OF GAYLE - ATTUS, HISTORY AND AGE
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Even then, the discrimatn ntued—nurs at the neart clic refed to treat him unls he brought his, Ndodana shar a small hoe wh four other refuge, three of whom intify as gay. “You keep prayg that one day that door will open, ” he told me, speakg of the rejectn by his relig past May, he attend Kumbulani Pri, an annual event to memorate victims of homophobia that this year was takg place around the rner om his hoe.
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It was anised by the Gay and Lbian Organisatn of the Wwatersrand (GLOW) and attracted a small but signifint number of participants, markg a historic moment the untry’s LGBTQ+ rights movement. While Cape Town tak the crown as the ‘gay-pal’ of South Ai, Johannburg do still offer a vibrant and diverse LGBTQ+ scene.
10-NIGHT CAPE TOWN GAY PRIDE
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.
South Ai’s 1996 Constutn specifilly protects full and equal rights for the LGBTQ+ muny – all forms of anti-gay discrimatn are banned.
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