QueerChats with House Nala
JAMEO CALVERT On 26 August the House Committee of House Nala hosted a virtual QueerChats session on Zoom. The panelists included representatives from Up&Out, House Khutso HC, the Department of Jurisprudence and a queer YouTuber. Up&Out’s Michaela Liesching, who was one of the panelists to speak about the history of the queer community in South Africa, mentioned that in 1966, police raided a queer party in Forest Town with 300 people attending. “This attracted much public and political attention, which, in 1969 lead to an extension of the criminalisation of male homosexuality,” she said. This raid is known till today as “The Forest Town raid”Read More →