In South Ai, televisn shows have often been at the foreont of makg gays and lbians a ltle more visible the hom of lns of viewers.
Contents:
- THE FIRST GAY MARRIAGE SOUTH AI
- THE FIRST GAY PRI MARCH IS HELD SOUTH AI
- LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
- KENYA'S FIRST GAY POLIL NDIDATE REVEALS WHY HE QU RACE
THE FIRST GAY MARRIAGE SOUTH AI
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. Therefore, is safe to assume that the natnalist ernment would have taken an anti-homosexualy stance, which would have fluenced policy. 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".
THE FIRST GAY PRI MARCH IS HELD SOUTH AI
The argument n be ma that the men chose to return to their heterosexual liftyle bee they did not want to be ostracized by a disapprovg society, and had ltle opportuny to engage homosexual activi outsi of the m. Simon Nkoli (November 26, 1957- November 30, 1998), a proment gay rights activist reunted his experience of g out: “Ten years later I me out of my own closet when I met a man, fell love wh him, and told my parents. Nkoli's acunt is reprentative for most homosexual people; however, there are fai that are acceptg: “My mother unrstood; her uncle was also gay.
Gevisser (1995) argue that homosexual, middle/upper-class whe were able the first to mobilize a homosexual movement bee they had enough fancial and polil clout supportg them to achieve a mor victory for homosexual activism.
The Wtern Cape's Colored muni are creded wh the earlit and most formalized exprsn of homosexualy wh their "moffie" culture (Chetty, 1995).
LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
The role of the clubs is important sce they operated durg a perd of extensive sexual reprsn and gave the homosexual muny an outlet to exprs themselv (Chetty, 1995).
Urban areas also offered homosexuals form townships more eedom, to be away om judgmental parents and muni, and live around people who shared siar life experienc and who were acceptg of them. The Immoraly Act of 1957 rtricted 'unnatural/immoral sexual acts' which was phemism for sexual act associated wh homosexualy or non-reproductive terurse (Weeks, 1981).
KENYA'S FIRST GAY POLIL NDIDATE REVEALS WHY HE QU RACE
Amendments were troduced to the 1957 Immoraly Acts that further rtricted relatnships between different rac and only outlawg homosexualy if occurred public plac (Gevisser, 1995). Prr to the raid, the Immoraly Acts of 1927 basilly outlawed homosexualy public, this changed wh the 1968 amendment to the Immoraly Act of 1957 (Retief, 1995).
The loophole the South Ain Immoraly Acts were that people uld only be arrted if the offenc were nducted public (Gevisser, 1995), therefore 1968, Mister of Jtice Pelser proposed an amendment to the Immoraly Act of 1957 which would make homosexualy illegal (Gevisser, 1995). The Law Reform Movement of 1968 was led by a small group of gay profsnals (Gevisser, 1995), and though was maly a whe middle-class anizatn, had succs brgg together homosexuals om different class of society.