THE LESBIAN HOMECOMING REVOLUTION

All perfectly true and valid reasons. But in addition, perhaps even subconsciously, one of the other compelling reasons drawing me to London was because I knew it was a gay-friendly, cutting edge city.  

I always knew I liked girls, but the extent of my homosexual education was a few drunken grappling nights with my university roommate, which I barely remembered in the morning. I think I knew that a city like London would give me an environment in which to explore this exciting side of my personality. And so, fearless in youth, with only rucksack on my back, I hopped on a flight to begin my adult life in a more liberal environment.

London to me had an aura of glitz, glamour and ‘anything goes’. It oozed sexiness. Of course, when you get there it’s just another big city with lots of buildings, only more expensive and more rain… Until you get to know it that is. It has choice. No matter what you’re into, you can find a place that caters for you in the big smoke. It is the perfect place to explore every nook and cranny of your soul.

Now, after seven years in the UK, I return to our shores a different person. I have grown up, I have a career, I have earned good money and I have travelled Europe. Check to all the things I set out to accomplish when heading overseas. But in addition to all that, I have embraced the London hotbed of gay clubs, and overt sexuality that comes with a night out in the city. I have experienced a wonderful relationship with a girlfriend, and had my heart broken by that very same girl. Perhaps most importantly, I have come out.

Despite all the wonderful memories of London, I have left it behind to follow so many of my fellow citizens heading back to South Africa for a better quality of life. And so I find myself back in this country in a new city I have never lived in – Cape Town. And I am left wondering:

There have been so many changes in our wonderful country enticing the homecoming revolution citizens home, but I wonder what my lesbian homecoming journey is going to be like? Part of me is excited about all the new escapades I am likely to have here in this city, and part of me is terrified at just how I am going to go about meeting a whole new crowd of people in a country that I always saw in the past as conservative.

I am hoping that the changes in me, and our country, mean that this transition to a new phase in my life is packed with openness, excitement and adventure. And that Cape Town offers the girls coming home, a warm welcome with lots of exciting stuff on the cards, because I for one, am looking forward to finding out what this beautiful city, with it’s gorgeous girls, has in store for me.

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