LBGTIS EXPLORE CHURCH AVENUE

MBABANE – Fresh from celebrating the first ever Eswatini Pride, the local LGBTI community is set to have a dialogue with religious leaders.

Dubbed the ‘Rock of Hope Religious  Dialogue 2018’, the event is scheduled for today at The George Hotel in Manzini, starting at 9am.
Rock of Hope is a community-based organisation supporting the needs and advocating for the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people in the Kingdom of Eswatini.

The organisation made history on June 30 this year when it hosted the first ever Gay Pride at the Prince of Wales where over 300 people, including diplomats, showed up.

The event was spiced up with a march whose aim was to confront and attempt to break socially entrenched homophobic stereotypes.
The proposed dialogue is already being promoted by the organisation through a notice posted on its social media pages, Facebook and Twitter, where it encouraged the public to follow up on the conversations that would be going on.

In the notice, the organisation quoted a Bible verse, John 3:16 which reads, ‘For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son so that whosever believes in Him can have eternal life.’
Rock of Hope Communications Manager Melusi Simelane confirmed the dialogue and highlighted that the organisation had always been in touch with religious leaders.

He stated that attending the event was by invite only but that members of the public were allowed to pose questions on their social media pages and engage in discussions.

“We started engaging religious leaders a long time ago and this is because we are also human, which means we do need to discuss both social and spiritual issues. This is where we will discuss the connection of the LGBTI community with religion,” he said.

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