Commissioned by OutRight International and produced by a South African Production Company, Doti Productions, the film highlights the challenges faced by African LGBTIQ citizens who face state institutionalized homophobia, violence and draconian laws that violate all their basic human rights. It looks specifically at the exclusion of LGBTIQ Africans from the political sphere and how this impacts on every aspect of their lives. “LGBTI people are made invisible in political space and democratic processes and as a result then get excluded from agendas such as health, education, safety etc,” Zak Mbele, South Africa’s first gay Member of Parliament is quoted as saying. LGBTI Activist, Melanie Judge, captures the sue succinctly and accurately: “Politics is about Power and Power is everywhere…part of being a citizen in a country is to be able to participate in the affairs of that country – to be able to claim political space for your voice to be heard and to participate in civil decision making.” Most African LGBTIQ citizens are denied that basic and fundamental right.

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