Some of South Africa’s celebrities have been proud and out loud about being queer. Here are 9 SA celebs that are proud of representing the LGBTQI+ group! The checklist contains the likes of PJ Powers, Thandiswa Mazwai, Lasziwe Dambuza and Toya Delazy.
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SOMIZI MHLONGO
Somizi is likely to be certainly one of South Africa’s hottest LGBTQI+ celebrities. The tv persona is an overtly homosexual man who isn’t afraid to deliver it. The former Idols SA choose all the time stuns in flamboyant outfits.
PJ POWERS
Award-winning musician PJ Powers has been the voice behind a few of South Africa’s largest songs together with You’re So Good To Me, Jabulani and There is Answer.
In 2014 she informed MambaOnline that she’s all the time assumed that the general public has been conscious of her sexuality.
“Oh, the whole world knows that I am gay. But I don’t walk about screaming ‘I am what I am’”.
“I don’t like to define myself by my sexuality but when I walk into a room with my girlfriend, people know that we are a couple.”
MARC LOTTERING
Stand-up comic Marc Lottering is an overtly homosexual man. In an interview with OkayAfrica, he shared that whereas he was at a present, one of many administrators he labored with persuaded him to come back out “casually” in a present. Although his supervisor fought towards it, the 53-year-old comic did it anyway.
“When I did make reference in the show as to me being gay, it was almost like a moment of boredom from the audience, because they were like, ‘We know. Are you really thinking about announcing this? We know you’re gay. You dress well, you smell great. Obviously, you are not straight.’”
SADE GILIBERTI
Actor and tv presenter Sade Giliberti can be part of the LGBTQI+ group. In a prolonged Instagram put up, Giliberti shared that was pressured to come back out to her father when she was 19 years outdated after being outed by her journalist.
“There was a possibility that this could have ‘ruined my career’. My father featured the same thing, more so he feared for my safety,” she wrote.
She at the moment lives together with her accomplice Chané in London.
THANDISWA MAZWAI
In a 2020 tweet, singer-songwriter Thandiswa Mazwai revealed that she stopped relationship males 14 years in the past. “Men are nice and everything but women are such more. I’m sure you will agree.”
“The biggest part of that story is the fact that my partner is who I’m really co-parenting with. She has been so selfless and committed and loving.”
“When I realised I was gay, I hated the word. I knew it meant I was different and at the time I didn’t know any other gay people except myself. Very confusing time,” the Ingoma songstress wrote.
LASIZWE DAMBUZA
Flamboyant social media persona Lasizwe Dambuza can be an overtly homosexual man. Speaking to Sowetan in 2017, he revealed that he misplaced mates in school as a result of they thought he was romantically fascinated by them.
The star shared that the leisure business was not very welcoming due to his sexuality.
“If it’s not my gayness, it’s my age. People like what I did but will not hire because of sexuality.”
LETOYA MAKHENE-PULUMO
Letoya Makene-Pulumo married her spouse Lebo Pulumo-Makhene in December 2020. The two celebrated their one-year six-month anniversary in August.
Speaking on her relationship with Lebo she mentioned that she was informed by many who sharing the information would break her profession.
“I tried to imagine myself in this ‘secret relationship’ and the complexities of not being able to really be me and to proudly love this amazing soul by my side.”
TOYA DELAZY
Toya Delazy has all the time been open about her sexuality. In an interview with City Press, she expressed that she informed her grandfather (Inkata Freedom Party (IFP) founder Mangosuthu Buthelezi) that she hated attire.
“That was the first time I was allowed to go to church wearing pants and everyone just got over it,” she defined.
The London-based muso married long-term accomplice Allison “Ally” Chaig in an intimate ceremony in 2021. The two welcomed their first baby collectively earlier this 12 months.
SIMPHIWE DANA
Simphiwe Dana is certainly one of South Africa’s hottest singers. In a collection of now-deleted tweets posted in 2020, she got here out as a member of the LGBTQI+ group as homosexual saying she had been holding it in ceaselessly.
“I know coming out means Africa will block me. But, after a lot of thinking, I’m okay with it. I’m marrying a woman, and I’ve never been happier.”
