April 2010

Movie and Pizza Night

Hey friends!

This Saturday, the 24th of April, we will be hosting a “Movie and Pizza Night” (we lost the drinks as alcohol on campus is apparently a big NO, NO without filling in forms a mile long – we will save it up for our mid year function where the drinks will flow like water).

Venue: Leslie Social (LS) 1A
Movie: We will have a selection of films to choose from. New and old.
Food: There will be pizza and non-alcoholic drinks.
Fun: Lots of it!

See you there.

PS: Remember to RSVP if you plan on coming for catering purposes.

The RainbowUCT Team

Shining Bright

Hey RainbowUCT!

LGBTI Rights in Africa Panel Discussion

This week we will not be having our normal Discussion Group. Instead we will be hosting a collaborative event with the History and Current Affairs Society as part of their Gender Week.
 
This Thursday, the 15th of April, at 5pm in Beattie 114 there will be an expert Panel Discussion on “LGBTI Rights in Africa”. Come along and hear the experts give a short presentation on the current situation on the continent and get to ask them a few Questions.
 
This is one not to be missed.

Also, remember to vote in our poll on what you'd like our next Discussion Group topic to be!

For all those aspiring Journalists

Our Media and Communication specialist, Yati, is looking for RainbowUCT reporters. We need members to write articles for our website on our events and other topics. Please contact Yati at khumalo.nkosiyati@gmail.com if you are interested.
 
The Pink Tongue newspaper has also informed us that they would really like to include a "younger/student" voice or opinion on matters, so if you are interested, please email the editor at gary.deklerk@inl.co.za.

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Shaka's sexuality not the point

A RainbowUCT member, Michael Laws, wrote an article for the Varsity newspaper:

I’m writing  in response to Lungisani Khuboni’s article “Shaka was not Gay” to strongly disagree with some of the sentiment expressed by Mr Khuboni.

I first saw this sign at the  protest in question and remember feeling slightly irritated, knowing that this sign might generate a controversy that would distract from the real issue we were protesting about - Uganda proposing to put homosexuals to death.

However, I think that this particular response highlights the very kind of mindset that gay and lesbian activists are fighting against and I want to use an analogy to draw some parallels to some of the issues raised.

Imagine you were at an anti-apartheid protest 40 years ago, and while protesting someone holds up a sign reading “Jesus was a black man”. What I want you to imagine particularly is the response it would have created at the time, keeping in mind that the national party believed that the Bible itself told them that black people were born evil and that Apartheid was God’s plan: the dominee getting up in church condemning the “absolute nonsense” of the sign,  preaching about the “real facts” about Jesus’ race; the angry housewife writing into the paper to point out her “disgust” that it was even suggested that Jesus was not as white as her cremora; or some religious conservative group on campus getting together and protesting passionately that Jesus was certainly no black man.

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What topic would you like to discuss during Discussion Groups?

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"You are not a man, you are a woman."

The Cape Argus yesterday reported on the rape of a lesbian woman in Philippi. The accused is alleged to have told the woman "You are not a man, you think you are, but I am going to show you, you are a woman."

The accused will appear in the Wynberg Magistrate's Court at 9am on Tuesday.

Members and friends are encouraged to be there at that time in solidarity with those LGBTI people who are living each day in fear of being attacked for their sexual orientation. RSVP to the Facebook event.

It's enough, and we need to have a united voice which says so.

Please see the article by the Cape Argus for more information, and we hope to see you at the court on Tuesday.

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RainbowUCT Logo Competition

We're calling upon a creative, bold mind to design a new logo for RainbowUCT!

RainbowUCT is giving its members a chance to design a new logo to represent RainbowUCT's identity and mission on campus and in the community. The new logo will be used on all RainbowUCT correspondence, letterheads, e-mail signatures, posters, as well as the website's logo.

A R500 cash prize is in store for the winning logo's designer!

The closing date for the competition is Tuesday, 15 June at midnight.

Not a member yet? Contact us to sign up!

Get those ideas flowing!

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