“Whether LGBTIQ people vote for the DA or the Kiss Party or whoever, we need to see LGBTIQ people involved in political spaces.' — Tebogo Makwati, a member of the ANC-affiliated queer rights alliance Embrace Diversity.
The post, featuring a beaming, shades-and-suit-garbed Mabenge, reads: “Mr Mabenge is ... author of a brutally honest memoir,, where he lays bare his tortured world, growing up trapped in the wrong body, while unflinchingly tracing his transition from female to male.”
The EFF’s manifesto is impressive in its detailed list of queer-specific issues it promises to tackle. But a look at the party’s manifesto, which it proudly states is about “advancing nation-building and social cohesion, stepping up the fight against racism, sexism, homophobia and other intolerances”, suggests it is lagging somewhat behind the chair-chucking Fighters.
Wayne Helfrich disagrees. Speaking from the blue corner, as spokesperson for the Democratic Alliance Rainbow Network, he says: “The DA is as important to the queer voter as the queer vote is to the DA.”
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