Three Teens Die After Alleged 'Gay Conversn' Camp Torture: Report
Contents:
- A GAY WHE TEEN STGGL TO EXIST IN APARTHEID SOUTH AI IN 'MOFFIE'
- SOUTH AIN TEENS DIE AFTER ALLEGED ABE AT REPORTED GAY 'CONVERSN' CAMP
A GAY WHE TEEN STGGL TO EXIST IN APARTHEID SOUTH AI IN 'MOFFIE'
The btal and mmerizg new film tak place South Ai 1981, where 16-year-old Nicholas is g to grips wh his homosexualy an environment that uldn't be more hostile to .
He's g to grips wh his homosexualy an environment that uldn't be more hostile to .
SOUTH AIN TEENS DIE AFTER ALLEGED ABE AT REPORTED GAY 'CONVERSN' CAMP
The tle of the movie, "Moffie, " is a homophobic slur Aikaans. Later the story, Dylan vanish whout explanatn, and Nicholas fears that he's been sent to the notor Ward 22, where gay men are mored to be sent for aversn approach another soldier who's been to Ward 22 and asks if he's heard anythg about Dylan. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) I hope for his sake that he's "Moffie" was directed and -wrten by Oliver Herman, a gay, biracial filmmaker who has ma several dramas about vlence and reprsn South Ain society, though this is his first film set durg apartheid.
He's said terviews that while he was ially reluctant to tell a story about this era om the perspective of whe men, he saw an opportuny to nont apartheid's culture of hypermasculy and s vastatg impact on gay South Ains. Herman is also well aware of the latent homoeroticism this thlsly homophobic culture, and he floods "Moffie" wh feverishly betiful imagery of mcular young men at work and at play.
Internatnal lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) rights advot are cryg the ath of three teenage boys who were allegedly tortured to ath at a so-lled "nversn mp" South Ai. " Though the three men were not nfirmed to have been gay, they were perceived to have "feme tras.