A year ago this month we landed in South Africa to learn that Melvin Naik, the mayor of George—where we would be performing a free community concert and participating in the city’s first-ever Pride parade—had gone onto a popular Christian radio program to declare...
On June 14, we visited the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg. Opened in 2001, the museum walks visitors through the history of South Africa’s violent system of state-sanctioned racial discrimination and segregation and the many decades of struggle to overthrow the...
Like the United States, the progress toward LGBT legal and social equality in South Africa has been a long struggle — and it continues to this day, as the country works to combat widespread anti-LGBT discrimination and violence. Here is a timeline of major events...