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PRI MONTH: CELEBRATG GAY SOUTH AIN CELEBRI
This month, South Ai celebrat the anniversary of s pneerg gay-marriage cisn. But the realy on the ground lags far behd the legal suatn. * gay influencers south africa *
Siarly, the 2018 film Inxeba (The Wound), which reprents gay characters a tradnal iatn settg, was banned om mastream cemas after protts by polil, relig and cultural groups. In one vio, Macheke scrib a distrsg experience of takg an Uber and experiencg homophobia om the driver.
An terview wh the st and crew of Inxeba (The Wound) was beg broadst on the r’s rad, and the driver, referrg to gay people, exclaimed: “The people mt jt die! ” Macheke scrib his anxiety the moment, speakg about the fear of seemg “obvly gay” bee of what he was wearg and th potentially facg danger and vlence. The ments on the vio aga show a strong sense of muny, and viewers reflect on their own life experienc of homophobia and tryg to “appear straight” orr to protect themselv public spac.
In one vio, Hlophe scrib how she found relatively easy to e out to her mother, but she also shar her daily stggl wh beg proud of her gay inty and how she wrtl wh beg open about her sexualy different settgs, like job terviews or her church muny. However, Dambuza also shar vlogs about his personal experienc as a gay man, wh many of the stori told his ual humoro tone. Not only is Mzansi the only untry on the Ain ntent to have legalised gay marriage, but the cisn to pass the Civil Unn Act 2006 ma jt the fifth the world to have enacted marriage equaly.