This weekend Africa's largest and longest running LGBT event, Joburg Pride took place. Intended as a celebration of all things gay, there is strife among the various factions within the community.
March organisers and members of the activist group, One in Nine, clashed violently. Initially marchers mistook the folks from One in Nine as members of an anti-gay group, and showed unnecessary hostility towards the protesters.
An incident caught on camera (below) shows members of One in Nine, wearing shirts that read "stop the war on women's bodies," retaliate by pushing and kicking a woman. What a wonderfully hypocritical way of promoting an anti-violence campaign.
Regardless of what happened to incite this particular altercation, these were the acts caught on camera for all to see. It is sad to see people fighting for the same rights, ultimately fighting one another.
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