Love is universal. And we don’t choose who we love, it’s the heart that plays along, dancing the samba when we meet them, the person for whom we overcome every boundary, whatever the cost. In Johannesburg, the price is high: your own life. Because here lesbian women are persecuted, raped, murdered –
Hate crimes for which the perpetrators too often get away with. Elisabeth Real lives in Africa and records the stories of homosexual women for The Lesbian Lives Project. The result is the book “When You Come Back, I Might Be Dead”, whose title reveals the danger that women who openly profess their love are exposed to here. This is the second work that Real has published as part of her project, but certainly not the last. Elisabeth Real, The Lesbian Lives Project, “When You Come Back, I Might Be Dead”, 432 pages, 65.
