{"id":177983,"date":"2024-08-06T02:53:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T00:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambiques-transgender-history-is-on-display-in-a-powerful-photo-exhibition\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T02:53:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T00:53:50","slug":"mozambiques-transgender-history-is-on-display-in-a-powerful-photo-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambiques-transgender-history-is-on-display-in-a-powerful-photo-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique&#8217;s Transgender History Is On Display in a Powerful Photo Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"78\">A pioneering queer photo exhibition that was staged 20 years ago in Mozambique and South Africa has found new life and a new audience. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maputofastforward.com\/en\/life-of-the-queer-community-in-maputo-portrayed-in-exhibition\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Manas 2000-2024<\/a>, by the Danish photographer <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dihajo.com\" rel=\"noopener\">Ditte Haarl\u00f8v Johnsen<\/a>, opened at the French-Mozambican <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CentroCulturalFrancoMocambicano\" rel=\"noopener\">Cultural Centre<\/a>, in the capital Maputo, on 8 July. The show kicked off <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ULAYOMZ\" rel=\"noopener\">Ulayo Fest<\/a>, Mozambique&#8217;s annual LGBTIQ+ pride week. Held in July since 2021, this cultural event celebrates the power of the arts to bring about and reflect social change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\"><strong> Read more: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/queer-life-in-africa-is-also-full-of-joy-remembering-the-carnival-in-mozambique-219165\" rel=\"noopener\">Queer life&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408050013.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pioneering queer photo exhibition that was staged 20 years ago in Mozambique and South Africa has found new life and a new audience. Manas 2000-2024, by the Danish photographer Ditte Haarl\u00f8v Johnsen, opened at the French-Mozambican Cultural Centre, in the capital Maputo, on 8 July. The show kicked off Ulayo Fest, Mozambique&#8217;s annual LGBTIQ+ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":177984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,9893,5688,7099,682,10439,257,12125,21836,254,3618],"class_list":["post-177983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-display","tag-exhibition","tag-history","tag-mozambique-news","tag-mozambiques","tag-news","tag-photo","tag-powerful","tag-south-africa-today","tag-transgender"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}