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KZN EVENTS - December 2012

Here is a little event calendar for KZN events this December 2012 30 November 2012 – Friday - Bent Sagittarian Party at The Lounge- Free Entry for Sagittarian Ladies and R50 for everyone else 1 December 2012 – Saturday- Mr Gay Angelos 2012- at Angelos Nite Club, Entry fee R 20 ... 1 December 2012- One Love HIV and Aids Awareness Concert, at Kings Park Free entry, collect your tickets at Com puticket and Shoprite stores. 8 December 2012- Who’s Kid Is It Anyway Christmas Tree Challenge! Collection Venue /Bring & Braai 8 December 2012 BENT and Babylon Take Over Party, FREE Entry before 9pm - R60 thereafter 14 December 2012: Mr and Miss LGBTI Summer 2012 and a BATTLE of HOTTEST DEEJAY's @PMB YMCA Hall, R30 gets u in 14 December 2012: Bent present DJ Lindi Lush, at The Lounge 15 December 2012/ Who’s Kid Is It Anyway : Distribution Venue Clermont Township / Meeting @ 11 am @ Sizakala Offices 15 December 2012- Link BLACK & WHITE WINE PARTY at The Collective, F

FACES & PHASES BY PHOTOGRAPHER/ACTIVIST, ZANELE MUHOLI

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South African black lesbian photographer, director of the documentary “Difficult Love” which recently shown at the London Film Festival, Zanele Muholi, who always managed to keep media and politicians talking about her work had an opportunity to showcase her work at the GOETHE INSTITUT( http://www.goethe.de/ins/za/joh/ver/en10022821v.htm ) in Rosebank Tuesday night where showcased photographs of black lesbian, women and transmen from around South African townships and surroundings. The exhibition oppening attracted mixed groups of races and cultures. Zanele Muholi Regardless of the difficulties of “Difficult Love” producer and director had experienced when all her material was stolen in her apartment she was still able to produce such fine art that she showcased at the ZANELE MUHOLI: FACES & PHASES exhibition, which she appreciated all the people who contributed on getting some material replaced even though the work she had produced over 5 years at least will not be recover

Beautiful work of Zanele Muholi

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Beautiful work of Zanele Muholi the most inspirational lesbian and black photographer Leh Sishi - Miss Gay Durban 2011/2012 For more interactions follow me on twitter @Yaya_Longoria I will be more active on my new blog from my website coming soon xxx. Stay tuned for details

My October Column - EXIT

An LGBTI documentary shown at the SA’s BIGGEST film event; 33 rd Durban International Film Festival 33 rd Durban International Film Festival, a 10 days long event that features different films from all over the world with amazing festivities in between with the BIGGEST SA’s celebrities featured CALL ME KUTCHU, a documentary film that tells the story of one of the first LGBTI activists in Uganda, David Kato. Durban International Film Festival is known of its best films and it attracts people from different communities with different perceptions about a lot of things. Having CALL ME KUCHU shown at such an event was the best any of the LGBTI activist and communities can ask for as the documentary got the message through to a lot of people, who got to know more about the struggles that LGBTI communities go through to claim their space. The most amazing part of the documentary is that it was in a form of entertainment concept. It is directed in a way that one gets to know LGBTI co