It's odd how for years, articles by Melanie Nathan have been highly prized and circulated and promoted by local human rights advocates, and how for years we have welcomed her campaigning to assist our cause, and her application of public pressure from outside the country - and now we can suddenly just turn around and say something like this:
"A condescending American [Melanie] Nathan based in America, who has no jurisdiction whatsoever in dictating to South Africans what to do (as what so many Western countries are prone to do), even if she was born in South Africa, she left this country three decades ago and has no business interfering. We're not listening - go write about the problems LGBTI face in the US. There's lots." - GaySpeak Ezine.
An
email from Mr Gay SA did the rounds in the early hours of this morning,
laying out in point form "the official stance" of a Pink Community
leader figure in South Africa.
Point five said: "We
support what Melanie Lowe and Cobus Fourie from SA GLAAD wrote about
standing together, but this has become an all-out attack against Mr GSA
driven by people who are serving their own interests and shamelessly
using this issue of the traditional leaders to promote themselves, their
blogs and their brands."
The email closed with "Please remove us from this mailing list - we will not respond if you do."
The quote at the top of this article was then posted on numerous Coalition and LGBT Facebook groups.
