Siya Khumalo

"At about 5:20 pm on 31 December 2012, a colleague picked a steak knife from a cutlery tray. He yelled, ‘Angi-gay, mina!’ – I’m not gay! – and came at me with it." Siya Khumalo grew up in a Durban township where one sermon could whip up a lynch mob against those considered different. Drawing on personal experience – his childhood, life in the army, attending church, and competing in pageants – Khumalo explores being LGBTQI+ in South Africa today. In 'You Have to Be Gay to Know...