Johannesburg’s annual gay pride parade, Joburg Pride, happened today. I wrote a long post about Joburg Pride last year, so I won’t torture you with another one. I marched more as a participant than a blogger this year, and besides, it was just too damn hot to take lots of photos.
Gay and Proud in Jozi
Africa is not an easy place to be gay. Homosexuality is illegal in more than half of African countries. South Africa is the most progressive African country when it comes to gay rights, and yet ‘corrective rape’ – lesbians being brutally raped and sometimes killed by men who seek to ‘cure’ them – is a frequent occurrence here. Here’s one of many recent articles I found about corrective rape.