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The past week I attended a LGBTIQ+ discussion at one of the fairly new residences on campus, House Outeniqua. The purpose of the talk was to get people’s viewpoints about the LGBTIQ+ community, or the Rainbow Community - as I like to call it.   One of the most common misperceptions that people had about the Rainbow Community was that being born in the wrong body (​transexual) , or being born either lesbian/gay was something that you can turn on and off at any given time. Most people even believed that homosexuality is an “out‒of‒the‒ordinary” lifestyle that individuals of the Rainbow Community chose to follow themselves. Some individuals who took part in this discussion and vehemently opposed homosexuality as a norm, went as far as saying that people of the Rainbow Community are either possessed by demonic forces, or they are just going through a very abnormal lustful phase.   When asked if homosexuality is a disease, and if so, how can it be treated, most people...

Hi, my name is Joshwin Anrich Sampson. I’m a third and final year Communication Science student who specialises in media studies and journalism.   Growing up in the slums of a broken community – rife with violence and various other forms of crime, I often nonchalantly and stolidly gazed at my reflection in the mirror as a means of reassuring myself of the potential I was born with which lays dormant until I choose to access it. And as a result thereof, I often sought refuge in the idea that there’s a bright future awaiting me somewhere beyond the borders of a community that has fallen into ruin.Thus the more I began to envisage my dreams, the more evident it became to me that my circumstances are, above all else, a stepping stone to the victory that awaits me in the great unknown.   My doting parents brought me up in a household that was opulent with values and principles which I was able to inculcate in my life, non-reluctantly. Hence, I’ve always b...