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Why you have to be Black and gay

Country: United States, Language: English, 16 mins

  • Director: Holly Joyce Lehren

CGiii Comment

It's not a short film, this is a recorded Zoom interview...with some archival footage thrown in.

What a cheery chap!


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The(ir) Blurb...

"If you are Black and gay in South Africa, then it really is all the same closet...inside is darkness and oppression. Outside is freedom." (Simon Tseko Nkoli) This documentary follows internationally renowned drag queen Odidi Odidiva from his formative years to the shaping of his drag persona in the shadow of South African apartheid.

Cast & Characters

Odidi Mfenyana (as Odidi Odidiva)