“There has to be a more social awareness campaign with regards to adults. You can’t only focus on the youth because if you look at the crimes : adults are predominantly the roots of it”.

In this episode we speak to Waseem one of the first South African openly gay Muslim broadcaster, activist. He talks about his outing to his parents, his family and the issues he faced being an openly gay Muslim. Read below to hear more about him:

“ When you are in a facility that specializes in LGBTQIA, that does workshops and retreat, it gives you knowledge,  helps you socialise, it Is a completely different experience.

The lockdown has been really difficult for a lot of LGBTQIA people depending on the class you are on. I am lucky to be in a privileged class. In South Africa gay white men would have be more privileged and trans black women would be the most disadvantaged. Even if it has been a while since the apartheid our country is still geographically built like that : you would find particular suburbs of a particular race group. You have class on the top of that, education privileges, transport privileges.

You rarely find LGBTQ facilities in areas predominantly occupied by black and brown people.”