Young LGBTIs are exposed to the same challenges as most South African youth – but these are made worse by continuing homophobia at home, at school, in churches and in society at large, despite the social changes of the recent past.

In 1995, the country’s groundbreaking, progressive Constitution outlawed discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, promising full citizenship to a post-apartheid generation of young LGBTIs after decades of political repression, in which homosexuality had been outlawed. How has that promise played out against the reality of the poverty, inequality and hardship that the majority of youth (not just LGBTI youth) confront daily? Has democracy brought the greater tolerance and celebration of diversity enshrined in the Bill of Rights? Is life better today for young LGBTIs than in 1994?

Guests in studio:

1. Boipelo Bokaba

2. Gina Mabasa

3. Calling Fortuin