3. Source: GALA archives

5. HAPPILY EVER AFTER?

6. Zoliswa Nkonyana, murdered 04 February 2006 Sizakele Sigasa, murdered together with Salome Masooa, 07 July 2007 Comments from callers to a talk radio programme on gay and lesbian rights, 2007

9. Newspaper article from 1955 on Mkhumbane, an area of Durban where public same-sex marriages took place between Zulu men from the late 1930s to the early 1960s. Mines dancers thought to be posing with their male ‘wives’ in early 20 th century “ As to the practice of hlabonga [thigh sex] that you complain of as existing among the ninevites in gaol...that has always existed. Even when we were free on the hills south of Johannesburg some of us had women and others had young men for sexual purposes.” Nongolza Mathebula, testimony to the director of prisons, 1912

11. Photograph of Gertie Williams and her family, 1956 Source: GALA archives

12. THE GALA ORAL HISTORY PROJEC TS

13. Source: GALA archives

14. Source: GALA archives

15. Nkunzi Nkabinde, researcher on the sangoma oral history project. GALA is publishing her autobiography in August 2008.

16. ARE YOUR RIGHTS RESPECTED?

19. A quantitative study conducted by the Joint Working Group in 2004 found that discrimination experienced at school by lesbian, gay and bisexual people was widespread:

25. CONTACT US Busi Kheswa: [email_address] Anthony Manion: [email_address]