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Contents:

• WAS SHAKA ZULU GAY?
• "IS BIG ZULU A GAY MAN?", FANS LEFT IN CONFN AFTER SEEG THE PICTUR
• DID THE ZULU CHIEF SHAKA ZULU EVER ENGAGE GAY SEX?
• BEG GAY AND ZULU
• HOW TO SAY GAY ZULU
• SHAKA ZULU, GAY MARRIAG AND THE TURNG OF GRAV
• A GAY ZULU WEDDG AND THE DANGER OF A SGLE LGBTI AIN STORY
• HAS STAR TREK'S SULU ALWAYS BEEN GAY? IT'S COMPLITED
• HOW TO SAY GAY ZULU
• GEE TAKEI LLS 'STAR TREK BEYOND' GAY SULU SCENE 'A WHISPER'
• ZULU NATN: HIP HOP’S FIRST GAY FAY

WAS SHAKA ZULU GAY?

It's not easy to wre a blog as you all know we've got people who will sctize each and every word you wrote, but then aga what's the pot of wrg if there aren't people who will cricize your of you know that Alexandra The Great was gay/bisexual, thanks to the movie and the openns of the Wtern Media when to issu of mak me wonr how accurate and tthful is our history, well the one that we've been tght by our grandparents or at school. We all know homosexualy is not somethg that jt me to existence the now 21st century but 's somethg that has been there sce the days of Sodom and Gomorrah.

He explaed so nicely I'll try to get an extract om 've all heard people the media and everywhere sayg how unAin is to be gay. Apparently there's some evince that Shaka Zulu was also gay and that he ed to f**k his soldiers.

When I mentned that Shaka was Gay he nearly Klapped me. We also know about Queen Modjadji the Ra Queen and her many wiv and the Bapedi people always fend her lbianism by sayg that she do not sleep wh those women, they're jt her helpers the Royal Historil gay figur u know about please share s I bet you no one is gog to tell about them.

"IS BIG ZULU A GAY MAN?", FANS LEFT IN CONFN AFTER SEEG THE PICTUR

There are some sourc ( seemgly untstworthy which seem to nfirm he was ed homosexual). However this source suggts he was possibly homosexual and he also did not father children which n be nsired rare for an ancient chief or kg. On Thursday, the Herald Sun announced that the character Hika Sulu will be revealed to be gay Star Trek Beyond, which hs theaters July 22.

Gee Takei, who played Sulu the origal show and who has been a proment LGBT activist sce g out as gay jt over a ago, told the Hollywood Reporter that he has been agast revealg the character as gay sce he first heard was unr nsiratn last year. “I’m lighted that there’s a gay character, ” Takei told THR. He believed ma more sense to create a new character who has always been gay, rather than brgg Sulu out of a prumed closet.

” But he also exprsed a ncern, which he discsed wh L and -wrer Doug Jung, that a new gay character may have been perceived by the dience as a token gay character, “primarily fed by their sexualy. ” Pegg believ Rodnberry’s cisn not to velop a gay character earlier was a product of his time, not of his visn.

DID THE ZULU CHIEF SHAKA ZULU EVER ENGAGE GAY SEX?

” Based on the movie’s timele, the cisn to make Sulu gay do not necsate his havg been the closet, Pegg explas, and prum that there has been an LGBT prence sce the begng of the anchise’s universe. And this time, fans were actually qutng whether the mician is gay or not.

South Ain rapper Big Zulu is trendg on social media after pictur of his alleged gay weddg went viral. Insi Big Zulu’s Alleged Gay weddg (Image Cred:Twter via@MaKhawula). My ar this not Big ZULU is some Amerin uple there’s this twter page that celebrate black love of gays and lbians they maly post marriage pictur.

On the flipsi, the trendg pictur have fueled longstandg mours that Big Zulu might be gay. The mour l that Big Zulu is ‘gay’ emanated after so much ‘evince’ was noted on his media llage. It is this regard that social ers allu that Big Zulu is gay as his pos give female telltale clu.

BEG GAY AND ZULU

This prompted many to assume that he might be gay. ‘Msagg” on gay issu, pecially om Zulu lears, is hurtg young Zul who are both and out of the closet, believ Nonhlanhla Mkhize, manager of the Durban Lbian and Gay Communy and Health Centre.

HOW TO SAY GAY ZULU

Mkhize says utteranc like those of ANC puty print Jab Zuma at Herage Day celebratns KwaDuza were affectg the psychology of gay Zulu-speakers. Zumu said that when he was growg up ‘an ungqgili [gay man] would not have stood ont of me. In such s ‘the rapist or rapists were explic about their motiv, sayg the gay person was raped to cure them, to make them more of a man or a woman”.

Zuma’s homophobic sentiments follow a strg of statements by Zulu lears based on the alleged nature of Zulu culture and the ia that homosexualy is an alien practice imported by European lonialists.

SHAKA ZULU, GAY MARRIAG AND THE TURNG OF GRAV

In his addrs at the annual reed dance Nongoma last year, Kg Goodwill Zwelhi referred to homosexualy as a ‘problem” and said: ‘The Zulu natn will not be this big, wh lns of people, if there was the problem of gay people that we have today.

A GAY ZULU WEDDG AND THE DANGER OF A SGLE LGBTI AIN STORY

‘We have a huge rponsibily as a natn to teach our children to distance themselv om homosexualy.

In fact, Cape Town n stay wh s moffi and s gays.

Behd the Mask’s Wendy Land, who rearch human rights vlatns agast gays and lbians sub-Saharan Ai, says is ‘mon practice” for ernment officials, policians and church people Southern Ai to voice homophobic sentiments, addg: ‘The homophobia spewed by the sub-Saharan media is also unbelievable. Vasu Reddy, chief rearch specialist at the Human Scienc Rearch Council’s genr and velopment un, remarked that Zuma’s utteranc were ‘tantamount to hate speech” and that the notn of gay inty beg un-Ain, spouted by many polil lears, was aimed at nyg the fact of homosexualy among Ains. ‘Essentialisg the Ain experience to the excln of other practic is really about unrlyg homophobia and disrpect for people’s inty, ” Reddy said.

HAS STAR TREK'S SULU ALWAYS BEEN GAY? IT'S COMPLITED

‘When the kg, nsired the ctodian of Zulu culture, says that beg gay is not part of Zulu culture, people start to ask: ‘Maybe I am wrong to believe I’m gay? Maybe beg gay is an import? Acrdg to a survey by NGO Out and the Unisa Centre for Applied Psychology, Levels of Empowerment among Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr People KwaZulu-Natal, the ls fortable people are wh their sexual inty, the more likely they are to suffer prsn, low self-teem, dg and alhol abe and suicidal thkg.

HOW TO SAY GAY ZULU

It found that black gays and lbians KwaZulu-Natal reported the hight equency of ‘always” or ‘often” thkg about suici. The survey found that relig and cultural prsur, as well as verbal, physil and sexual abe, domtic vlence and attacks on property all had an impact on how fortable uncloseted gays were wh their sexual orientatn and inty.

Said 21-year old stunt Mdu Ntuli, who grew up the Durban township of Umlazi: ‘Zulu society don’t want to regnise gays. Ntuli says he is openly gay, but affects beg straight whenever he returns to the township. Beg gay is more acceptable Durban but he still enunters homophobia the cy.

He remembers walkg past a taxi rank wh his lover, ‘wearg the really skimpy, sexy shirts”, and beg lled ‘istabane — a horrible, horrible word for gays”. Zuma may have alienated gay voters, but Reddy is certa he has appealed to ‘the paranoias and anxieti” of many South Ains, pecially nsirg the vrl emergg om public heargs on the Civil Unns Bill.

GEE TAKEI LLS 'STAR TREK BEYOND' GAY SULU SCENE 'A WHISPER'

The Out study found that 49% of rponnts believed public perceptns of lbian and gay people had not changed sce the Constutn took effect, wh 35% unsure. Posted: April 24, 2013 | Filed unr: Social | Tags: Ai, Culture of Ai, gay, KwaDuza, Mosiuoa Lekota, Nkosi Johnson, Shaka, South Ai, Tim, weddg |The first tradnal, gay Zulu weddg ma history Kwa Zulu-Natal. Last week- Comfortably homosexual uple, Tshepo Modisane and Thoba Shole, tied the knot a tradnal weddg ceremony.

This weddg which is said to be the ‘first Zulu gay marriage, went beyond the Daily Sun tabloids and liberated numero pag on foreont newspapers. Modisane said that, “There is this ia that beg gay is an ‘unAin’ phenomenon, and that homosexualy is somethg to be ashamed of as is a Wtern thg. He stated that they wanted to go agast the notn by showg South Ains that beg gay is ed Ain and is very much a part of the Ain culture”.

So let’s allow Thoba and Tshepo to jo the legacy, and lead the transformatn gay marriag and the acceptance of them. This created a foundatn for the eraditn of laws and behavurs prohibg and rtrictg gay marriag. Today, some room has been allowed for gay muni to exprs themselv, be heard and have accs to opportuni South Ai.

ZULU NATN: HIP HOP’S FIRST GAY FAY

Kg Zwelhi stands agast gay unns. In ntrast to the aforementned natnal officials who have been promotg change and acceptance of gays, Zulu monarch Kg Goodwill Zwelhi rejects the memo. Last year he featured The Tim cricizg gays and gog as far as name-llg.

The famo Zulu warrr and fn of tradn, culture, orr, and disciple; would he make the natn fast until all men are straight, or maybe ci to ‘punish’ everyone by orrg all men to be gay? In se you missed , a few weeks ago, two gay black South Ain men tied the knot at their 200-gut tradnal weddg, the first of s kd the old Zulu pal, Modisane and Thoba Shole, both proudly Zulu and Tswana, rpectively, cid to go public wh their gay Ain tradnal weddg ceremony by vg reporters to ver the ocsn. The vio report spread quickly across the Interwebs, cg a seri of media headl that scribe the unn as progrs for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) Ains.