Shame
on Pride
'Drag
Queens ridiculed by beefcakes, Dykes on Bikes proudly
donning swastikas on a tired denim jackets, four lesbians
getting raped on their way home from Pride and Steven
Cohen is labelled 'Satanic', more whites than blacks
- I don't feel pride, I feel shame!,
Carl
Collison argues on 'Q' website:
http://www.q.co.za/news/2000/11/001101-prideshame.htm
'Pride
went up for sale'
Johannesburg's
annual 'Pride' went up for sale, Phumi Mtetwa argued
in her speech last Saturday. Speaking on behalf of the
Lesbian and Gay Equality Project (formerly the National
oalition on Gay and Lesbian Equality) Mtetwa stated
that 'beging lesbian or gay in this country is by its
very nature political.' But did anybody listen? MORE
BEAUTY
CONTESTS ARE NOT ABOUT EQUALITY.
Most
of the celebrated and colourful events in many lesbian
and gay communities throughout the world are beauty
contests ( from Miss Butch to Miss Gay SA.) We regard
these beauty contests in a very serious light. And our
orientation leads us to conclude that beauty contests
( whether they celebrate the "model beautiful body"
or "deviations from the norms") primarily objectify
women as objects of sex and perpetuate the roles "men"
and "women" must play as socialised by a patriarchal
society, Kanyiso Sinxotsha and Cornelia argued in the
latest issue of Equality, a publicatio by the National
Coalition on Gay and Lesbian Equality in Johannesburg.
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(Un)African?
Why
The Hunting Season Has Been Reopened?
Peter van den Akker and Bart Luirink
President
Yoweri Museveni of Uganda recently ordered his secret
service to arrest all homosexuals in his country. His
Kenyan colleague, Daniel Arap Moi did not go quite that
far, but Museveni's decision certainly could count on
his full support. In Frederick Chiluba's Zambia, the
government prevented a newly constituted gay rights
group from registering. ... MORE
Museveni,
Moi: Don't peep in people's bedrooms
Dear
Tingasiga,
In
their new war against homosexuality, Uganda's Yoweri
Katuga Museveni and Kenya's Daniel Arap Moi have used
the Judeo-Christian scriptures and African tradition
to buttress their assault on the 'enemy '. Museveni
reportedly said that his father and the Bible had informed
him that God created only Adam and Eva and not a 'man
and man'. ... MORE
BBC poll: Is homosexuality "Un-African?"
The
issue of homosexuality is something of a hot potato
across Africa. On October 6 1999 for BBC Online reason
to organise a poll on the question: 'Is homosexuality
"un-African." Here are some of the responses. ...
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POLITICS
Gay
people change region
Peter
Vale writes that the clash between gay people and President
Mugabe showed that civil society can play a powerful
role in Southern Africa.
When
Robert Mugabe savaged the common law rights of gays,
he may well have initiated a geological shift in the
regional balance of power. ...
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Gay
Liberation: Race, Class and Gender
Forging
a representative Gay Liberation Movement in South Africa
Mazibuko
Jara, Sheila Lapinsky
The
history of gay liberation in South Africa reflects the
history of the country: South African gays were divided
along race, class and gender lines despite their common
experience of sexual oppression. For decades, the public
face of the South African gay liberation movement was
white, middle class and male and as a whole it failed
to link itself to the broader liberation struggle.
... MORE
AFRICAN
RENAISSANCE
'I believe it is the African women
who will lead us and realise the African Renaissance'
Nomfundo Luphonwana
I believe in Thabo Mbeki's vision of the African Renaissance but African
women must take their rightful leadership positions
in society. Power will not be handed to African women,
so it is up to African women to fight for their rightful
places in society. Democracy and freedom in
South Africa, and elsewhere in the world, have
never been handed over on a silver platter. For instance Apartheid was systematically destroyed
by the efforts of all kinds of activists. So
I would say: 'Come on women, be active and get involved.'...
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The
Queerness of the "African Century"
Tim Trengove Jones
Can
South Africa’s Equality Clause become comfortably incorporated
into the African Renaissance? And how to develop an
immaterial African queer identity? ...
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ILGA
Subtle Art of Being Gay the African
Way
Mark Gevisser
Just
days before the International Gay and Lesbian
Association was to begin its conference in Johannesburg
this week, the first on African soil, Uganda’s
main newspaper, New Vision, ran a double-page
pullout proclaiming: "Homosexuals increasing
in Uganda. Who’s responsible?"...
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Anthro-Homo
Apologists
Thanks
to the efforts of a group of Norwegian researchers,
homosexual
behaviour amongst members of a tribe in the north of
Namibia, a tribe that has not been influenced by Christianity.
In the same vein, the American psychologist Marc Carlson
unearthed powerful evidence pointing towards similar
practices amongst no less than 48 tribes in Zimbabwe.
... MORE
History
Tells All
Dumisane
M. Dube
In
the old days a Zimbabwean man who wanted to have sex
with another man could turn to kupindera: he asked his
wife to have sex with one of his brothers. So history
tells all, argues Dumisani M. Dube. It has hit the headlines
that being gay is a style of behaviour adopted from
the West. ... MORE
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