HOW TO BE A REAL GAY, gay identities in small-town South Africa

306 pp., illus., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2013

This book grew out of a series of workshops organised between 2003 and 2005 by gay activists in the small town on Ermelo, South Africa, and focuses on everyday practices of gayness and the creation of safe gay spaces.

Includes photographs by Sabelo Mlangeni.

Graeme Reid is the director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Program at Human Rights Watch in New York. He is also the author of "Above the Skyline: the Reverend Tsietsi Thandekiso and the founding of an African gay church".