Queer - and proud to be Xhosa
(World News South Africa)

Lubabalo Mabona* remembers the night vividly. `We were about to fall asleep, when he said there was something he noticed about me. He didn´t say what it was. Then he said he wanted to test something with me. I asked him, `What?´ He asked me to take my blanket off and then he started touching me. That´s when I also got an erection. `He asked if we could do more than touching and I said: `No, this is not the appropriate place.´ He eventually gave up but he slept right next to me. His body was right next to me. It was my first time touching a man.` The man Mabona speaks of was the traditional nurse tasked with taking care of him at the Eastern Cape initiation school he attended in 2010. The...