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The Daily Maverick published this piece by Malibongwe Tyilo in 2020, and I forgot to link to it back then. Whose struggle is it anyway? Lessons on intersectional activism from ‘Simon and I’ https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-06-14-whose-struggle-is-it-anyway-lessons-on-intersectional-activism-from-simon-and-i/ I have my own memories of Pride 2001, eleven years after the beginning.
In the US and Canada, June is Pride Month. We’ve come a long way from 2001 when South Africa was lucky to have its first Pride Week in Johannesburg, a concept that has apparently continued since we invented it. I wrote some things on Twitter about Pride in the last few days, which I’m goingContinue reading Pride month
In less than a month, the Calgary Men’s Chorus is sending a contingent to the GALA Choruses Festival in Denver, which is in the same country where 49 people were killed last night in a gay club by one man armed with an assault rifle that he got without a background check, despite being onContinue reading Reflections on the Orlando Massacre
In late 2000 or early 2001, I joined the Johannesburg PRIDE 2001 Organising Committee. I’ve written about my experiences of that year already. This post is something different, but related. Imagine you’re scanning your receipts for 2013 and 2014, and you accidentally move a PDF file to the wrong folder. Then you decide to sortContinue reading Where Is Your Pride?
Recent news about the most successful Pride parade in Johannesburg’s history, interrupted by female activists from the One in Nine group, has led me to write down memories and thoughts about my experience on the 2001 organising committee. Eleven years is a Very Long Time in South African LGBTI history, and somehow the fact thatContinue reading Pride 2001 Organising Committee