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FILE:GAY FLAG OF SOUTH
When South Ai legalised gay marriage 2006, beme jt the fifth untry the world to do so, and the first on the Ain ntent. First off: Dpe homosexualy often beg referred to as “un-Ain”, homosexual behavur and relatnships have always been prent on the Ain ntent, jt as has been elsewhere the world.
In fact, South Ai’s First People, the Khoisan, had termology scribg homosexualy their digeno language: koetsire referred to men who were sexually receptive to other men, while the word soreg was ed to scribe a iendship which volved same-sex masturbatn. There is evince of homosexual behavur beg a part of many South Ain digeno cultural groups, although was mostly not seen as beg direct opposn to heterosexualy, but rather as addnal liberty that all people the group were entled to. The backlash agast homosexual behavur South Ai me wh the adoptn of Roman-Dutch Law when Dutch settlers found the Cape Colony, and sodomy would rema a mon-law offence South Ai until 1998.
When police raid a party attend by mostly gay people Fort Town, a Johannburg suburb, the attentn attracted by the raid leads to the Immoraly Amendment Act three years later. The amendment also rais the age of nsent for male homosexual activy om 16 to 19, wh sodomy remag a crimal activy. Between 1971 and 1989, the South Ain Defence Force subjects homosexual and transgenr members to aversn therapy, which clus electric shock treatment and chemil stratn.