[Image: Photo of a woman centered in a crowd at a pride event, wearing a Soweto Pride t-shirt and holding up a sign that reads, “I am GAY so what!!!” with two intersecting female symbols]

Soweto Pride Sept 2011 79 (by Lauren Barkume)

[Image: Photo of two women at a pride event. Both are dark-skinned and have really fantastic hair that I don’t have the vocabulary to describe. The shorter of the two has a stripey shirt and pink and black stripey arm-bands.]

Soweto Pride Sept 2011 138 (by Lauren Barkume)

[Image: Photo of two femme, dark-skinned women at a pride event, both wearing red scarves. One is standing behind the other, holding her arms.]

Soweto Pride Sept 2011 177 (by Lauren Barkume)

[Image: Photo of two dark-skinned women embracing. One has on a t-shirt and jeans, the other a jean jacket and white skirt. They are outside.]

Soweto Pride Sept 2011 125 (by Lauren Barkume)

[Image: Photo of several people standing together at a pride event. The most dynamic is a dark-skinned, mid-age woman wearing a Soweto Pride rainbow Africa shirt and pumping her fist into the air.]

Soweto Pride Sept 2011 123 (by Lauren Barkume)

[Image: Photo from a pride event of a grinning, dark-skinned woman in a rainbow Africa/Soweto Pride t-shirt and a skirt, expressive with one hand in the air, in front of a rainbow flag.]

Soweto Pride Sept 2011 19 (by Lauren Barkume)

[Image: Photo from a pride event of two women, possibly a couple, being adorable. One has a huge smile and the other is either nuzzling or kissing her cheek.]

Soweto Pride Sept 2011 55 (by Lauren Barkume)

[Image: Photo of a procession of people at a pride event, many holding signs and rainbow flags. One sign reads, “I’m a proud lesbian and a young women of S.A. so Y? hate!!! God loves me,” and another, “I’m a proudly South African Lesbian nothing can change that!!!”]

Soweto Pride Sept 2011 86 (by Lauren Barkume)

[Image: Photo from a pride event of many people standing with signs and clapping around a dancing individual]

Soweto Pride Sept 2011 40 (by Lauren Barkume)

[Image: Photo of two women at a pride event, both dark-skinned and wearing the event’s rainbow Africa/Soweto shirts. One is holding a book and smiling; she has rainbow beads hanging onto her forehead.]

Soweto Pride Sept 2011 163 (by Lauren Barkume)