You Have to Be Gay to Know God

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Siya Khumalo. You Have to Be Gay to Know God

Foreword

PROLOGUE

CHAPTER 1

The Flame

CHAPTER 2

Awakening

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

Marching In and Out of Time

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

As Above, So Below; As Within, So Without

The Mbeki Conundrum

CHAPTER 6

Dying of Politeness

Women’s Bodies

CHAPTER 7

Leviticus’s World

CHAPTER 8

CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 10

CHAPTER 11

Tribalism and Toxic Masculinity

The Parallel Between Patriarchy’s Sons and Political Subjects

Chapter 12

CHAPTER 13

CHAPTER 14

Romans 1 and 1 Corinthians 6

CHAPTER 15

CHAPTER 16

CHAPTER 17

African Leaders Dine with the Roman Soldiers

Signing up for Black Criminality

CHAPTER 18

Epilogue

Endnotes and Citations

Acknowledgements

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I also cultivated a stoic indifference to everything. I avoided speaking to Josh, though his registration class desk was seven and three-quarter tiles in front of mine where the summer morning sunlight made his hair look like a bronze spun silk cap above his bottle-green blazer. I repurposed him from The Flame into The Muse. He unknowingly ignited raw, passionate essay-writing in me. I was screaming at him with every sentence, holding the pen in my fist like it was a chisel to his heart where I etched my unspoken words. For Shakespeare, I would not just answer the question about Macbeth’s plot to murder King Duncan. I would argue that everything foreshadowing this assassination proves Macbeth was out to betray his king all along — that he was born a traitor.

This made my teachers sit up and take notice. ‘Your writing is quite refreshing,’ the History teacher would say.

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