Now we know who is a 'Stella McCartney' in LGBTI speak. This is someone who will steal your stuff if you ever date them.
This past week we got to know about this term and others as used by the LGBTI(Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans-gendered & Inter-sexed) community amongst themselves, thanks to Metro FM's Azania 'Aza' Mosaka. For most of the week, during her 'Total Bliss' show(9am to 12 midday), 'Aza' interviewed several prominent members of the LGBTI community here in Gauteng. She was doing these interviews in an attempt to highlight the plight of this community ahead of their Joburg Pride march(that took place yesterday - Saturday 6th).
The Gay and Lesbian community is routinely victimized in some townships. If the lesbians are not raped in order to 'cure' them, they are murdered. Or both. All of this because they are homosexual.
By bringing a few members of this community on air 'Aza' was saying - in a way - that she is fully behind them. And this is a stance that should be adopted by all South Africans. Prejudice against someone because of their sexual orientation is the same as discriminating against someone because of the colour of their skin. There is not much you can do about your skin colour. Just as much as there is nothing you can do about your sexual orientation.
The highlight of this series of interviews was no doubt the final one(done on Friday 5th). 'Aza' interviewed the king of the LGBTIs himself - Somizi Mhlongo. In a no holds bared interview Somizi told us about his 'uku guzuka'(bruises) on this road to making people(fellow Africans in particular) accept him the way he is. Loved how he started this interview by saying, "People must not phone in and ask me why I am gay. This is 2012."
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This past week we got to know about this term and others as used by the LGBTI(Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans-gendered & Inter-sexed) community amongst themselves, thanks to Metro FM's Azania 'Aza' Mosaka. For most of the week, during her 'Total Bliss' show(9am to 12 midday), 'Aza' interviewed several prominent members of the LGBTI community here in Gauteng. She was doing these interviews in an attempt to highlight the plight of this community ahead of their Joburg Pride march(that took place yesterday - Saturday 6th).
The Gay and Lesbian community is routinely victimized in some townships. If the lesbians are not raped in order to 'cure' them, they are murdered. Or both. All of this because they are homosexual.
By bringing a few members of this community on air 'Aza' was saying - in a way - that she is fully behind them. And this is a stance that should be adopted by all South Africans. Prejudice against someone because of their sexual orientation is the same as discriminating against someone because of the colour of their skin. There is not much you can do about your skin colour. Just as much as there is nothing you can do about your sexual orientation.
The highlight of this series of interviews was no doubt the final one(done on Friday 5th). 'Aza' interviewed the king of the LGBTIs himself - Somizi Mhlongo. In a no holds bared interview Somizi told us about his 'uku guzuka'(bruises) on this road to making people(fellow Africans in particular) accept him the way he is. Loved how he started this interview by saying, "People must not phone in and ask me why I am gay. This is 2012."
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