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This is the story South African history tried to erase - that the anti-apartheid struggle had queer leaders, and the queer struggle had Black leaders, and they were the SAME people.

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00:00The newsletter outlines our next steps.
00:04We printed the newsletter, GASA Newsletter, but it didn't do enough on its own.
00:09But outside, those same folks who were oppressed, they were marching for all of us.
00:13It was incredible.
00:14Amanda, away with apartheid!
00:16Soy, soy, freedom now!
00:17We will not back down!
00:19No, we demand justice now.
00:22While some danced under the neon and stayed quiet, others were fighting two wars at once.
00:28Simon and Coley, black, gay, comrade, arrested, thrown into the Delmas trial.
00:39They put cuffs on him and said, try look that judge in the eye while he was doing this and
00:44couldn't believe my ears.
00:46Simon was a hero, a true freedom fighter.
00:49In a prison cell, he stood up and said the words they didn't want to hear.
00:53I am not a traitor. I am a freedom fighter.
00:59Oh, honey, we danced under the neon while they burned the streets.
01:04The struggle was never just one thing.
01:07And it continues today.
01:11They'll hang us all!
01:13Silence, we stand together.
01:14Together, how?
01:16By speaking truth.
01:17No retreat.
01:20No retreat.
01:23No retreat.

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