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.
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- 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'
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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 . 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.
SOUTH AIN TEENS DIE AFTER ALLEGED ABE AT REPORTED GAY 'CONVERSN' CAMP
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.
A week ago, the sentencg of two transgenr women Cameroon to five years prison for "attempted homosexualy" highlighted the ongog difficulti sexual mori and transgenr people face on the Ain ntent. Habibou, a 25-year old stunt Dakar, do everythg possible to protect himself om the prevailg homophobia, and tri to hi his inty as a “goorjigeen" ("boy-girl" Wolof). "The mere fact that the word exists shows that homosexualy is part of our culture, ” he told RFI’s Sabe Csou.
“People often fet, but ed to be tolerated our tradnal society, before the imams got this sort of fixed ia their heads the 1990s, targetg only gays and not lbians.