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.
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- LIST OF SOUTH AIN GAY ACTORS – PICTUR
- LIST OF STRAIGHT SA ACTORS WHO NAILED THEIR GAY ROL ON TV DRAMA SERI
LIST OF SOUTH AIN GAY ACTORS – PICTUR
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In South Ai, televisn shows have often been at the foreont of makg gays and lbians a ltle more visible and human the hom of lns of viewers. Jt like me, Rolanda’s character, Hannelie Kock, was very Aikaans but also que gay.
LIST OF STRAIGHT SA ACTORS WHO NAILED THEIR GAY ROL ON TV DRAMA SERI
Before Hannelie and Sedika’s on-screen relatnship, another SABC 2 drama seri, 37 Honey Street, broke barriers for the gay muny when featured an on-screen kiss between Juliana Venter and Casey B. Wrg about the history of gay kiss on South Ain televisn, Cameron Modisane pots out the repercsns that a prison rape scene featured the send season of the tnal youth drama, Yizo Yizo, had: the scene set tongu waggg parliament, where a number of MPs lled for the programme to be banned due to the homosexual nature of the episo. Yizo Yizo 3 elaborated on that theme, and will forever be the first prime-time reprentatn of a lovg relatnship – and a kiss – between two gay men, as more than 5 ln viewers watched the episo qutn on SABC 1 June 2004.
After 21 years, Isidgo still grac the screens of lol soapie buffs, and this seri has been stmental brgg gay characters to the livg rooms of s viewers.
Sce then, Isidgo has featured a number of gay and bisexual characters, cludg Prada Naicker (Ashish Gangapersad), Dennis M (Ashley Dowds), Len Cooper (Chris Beasly), Pl McPherson (Carl Bk) and, more recently, the character Thabang, played by Pholoso Mohlala. Gay characters on popular lol TV shows seem to always rtart nversatns about homosexualy the ntext of a maturg rabow natn.