Melanie Lowe ... the spiky haired girl we all speculated about on the first series of South African Idols, the one whose (male) fiancĂ© didn't stop us speculating, finally came out of the closet in June's O Magazine - a skillful way to let the world at large know something that we, the queer community, have been widely aware of for years now.  South Africa's LGBTQ community is a relatively small one and a lot of it is in the closet due to cultural taboo - corrective rape within some segments ...

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