GLAAD Media Awards

Despite recent legal protections, South Africa’s LGBTQ communities still face a gap between progressive legislation and their lived realities.

In this film, a group of black lesbian women reflect on what has — and hasn't — changed in their lives in South Africa in the past ten years. They discuss the persistence of violence, discrimination, and the fragile guarantee of safety and acceptance over a decade that, on paper, promised big gains for LGBTQ rights.