By Alleyn Diesel
This courageous and relocating number of tales by way of South African lesbian girls from varied backgrounds reminds us, back, that rights are by no means ultimately received in legislatures or in courtroom rooms. they're gained by means of humans exercise them. The authors of the tales and poems during this ebook have performed simply that. they've got stood as much as have a good time the respect of lesbian ladies in South Africa. every one contribution is diverse. and every intensely own. and every one reminds us of the pressing desire for us to forestall hate crime and to create a secure society for all LGBT South Africans.
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Even then my own gayness never made me feel like a victim. Whilst it was a deep well of loneliness (thank you Radclyffe Hall) I never rejected this part of myself when I was growing up. I could not because it was not something I could reject. I never felt foreign to myself, only foreign within my social context. I could only surmise that this was not the first lifetime I have chosen to be @<305+(5669;4(5 gay. It sat well with me then and has ever since. Even when I did not understand, I never got angered by my “differentness”, but only by the universal injustice of being rejected because of it.
I was stuffed into a pale yellow chiffon dress that scratched and constricted my movement. Early that morning my hair was rolled into pink plastic rollers and pulled so tight my eyes watered. Later, amidst many tears, it was combed out into a beehive of curls and adorned with white plastic daisies. (5+6;/,9;(3,: In the late afternoon Free State heat the dominee’s voice blended with the song of the sun beetles. He droned on and on, until he finally said, “Laat ons bid,” and I was thankful for the chance to close my eyes.
From this point on, our lives dominoed in an apparently orchestrated way; at one point I remarked to Karen how it seemed as if it was all happening with the two of us simply looking on. We had decided to put our house on the market – just to see if there was interest. To our surprised horror we had received a great offer in the first week and had accepted. More dominoes tumbled effortlessly when the business property had sold within a week. We were moving! Was all of this a prelude to menopause?
