We also dream of ordinary lives

In the first two pieces of this series, we examined two things: the gap between Botswana’s remarkable legal progress and the daily realities of its LGBTIQ citizens, and the psychology that sits underneath the resistance to queer inclusion; the fear, the fragile masculinity, the religion weaponised against compassion.

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