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My name is Maria, I'm 43.

I've been art since forever.

What sort of lifestyle do you have?

Is it markedly different from any heterosexuals?

Not at all.

Do you do the gay clubs?

Anyway, with the music's good.

This is South Africa, where gays like these are able to enjoy a thriving social life

and greater legal protection

than most other countries in the world.

My name is Timbole Tuvicta Mangala.

This is the most gay place in South Africa.

It's beautiful.

So you can do things like walk down the street, hands and hands with your girl.

Oh yeah, it's the law.

What else?

You'd have your sort of rights in terms of property and things like that

if you were stayed together for a long time.

You just feel like a good old citizen.

I'm so happy that everybody is equal because of the constitution.

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