TL McCormick,, Author at MambaOnline - LGBTQ South Africa online https://www.mambaonline.com/author/tl-mccormick/ South Africa's leading LGBTQ news and community platform Mon, 25 Nov 2019 13:35:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 https://www.mambaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/cropped-mamba_logo_output-32x32.png TL McCormick,, Author at MambaOnline - LGBTQ South Africa online https://www.mambaonline.com/author/tl-mccormick/ 32 32 The history of drag in South Africa still plays out at modern pageants https://www.mambaonline.com/2019/11/25/the-history-of-drag-in-south-africa-still-plays-out-at-modern-pageants/ https://www.mambaonline.com/2019/11/25/the-history-of-drag-in-south-africa-still-plays-out-at-modern-pageants/#respond Mon, 25 Nov 2019 13:00:42 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/?p=97823 A Google search for the term 'South African drag queens’ yields approximately half-a-million results. TL McCormick takes a look at the history of drag in the Western Cape.

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]]> https://www.mambaonline.com/2019/11/25/the-history-of-drag-in-south-africa-still-plays-out-at-modern-pageants/feed/ 0 How Cape Town’s ‘Gayle’ has endured – and been adopted by straight people https://www.mambaonline.com/2019/05/23/how-cape-towns-gayle-has-endured-and-been-adopted-by-straight-people/ https://www.mambaonline.com/2019/05/23/how-cape-towns-gayle-has-endured-and-been-adopted-by-straight-people/#comments Thu, 23 May 2019 16:25:57 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/?p=94654 Many may not realise that the camp language used by gay men in South Africa, known as Gayle, draws from a long history that began in Cape Town.

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]]> https://www.mambaonline.com/2019/05/23/how-cape-towns-gayle-has-endured-and-been-adopted-by-straight-people/feed/ 1 Opinion | Why same-sex marriage is not the ultimate tool for queer liberation https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/10/23/opinion-why-same-sex-marriage-is-not-the-ultimate-tool-for-queer-liberation/ https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/10/23/opinion-why-same-sex-marriage-is-not-the-ultimate-tool-for-queer-liberation/#comments Tue, 23 Oct 2018 11:07:42 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/?p=89715 Same-sex marriage is often seen as the pinnacle of LGBTQ+ equality. But TL McCormick argues it's actually a tool for the state to further control family, gender and patriarchy.

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