🏳️🌈Pride Month
📺SABC 1: After 9 (2007-2013)
After 9 arrived at a fascinating moment in South Africa. On paper, the country had some of the world's most progressive protections for LGBTQIA+ people. But as we know, what is written in the Constitution and what happens around the dinner table are often two very different things.
The show understood that gap. Its characters weren't just struggling with their sexuality; they were navigating family expectations, cultural pressures, career ambitions and the performance of being the "right kind" of man.
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This Pride Month, I came out to my father.
It was liberating to finally speak my truth, yet painful to witness the shift in energy between us. So much went unsaid, but sometimes distance speaks louder than words.
Still, I chose honesty, I am so tired of betraying myself.