Glen Retief is a South African writer"Glen Retief: Coming of Age in South Africa"
''Lambda Literary Review'', 13 May 2011. who won a Lambda Literary Award in 2012 for his memoir ''The Jack Bank: A Memoir of a South African Childhood''."24th Annual Lambda Literary Award winners announced"
'' Windy City Times'', 5 June 2012. ''The Jack Bank'' was also an Africa Book Club Book of 2011. Retief grew up in South Africa's

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, where his father was a park warden."Goucher Presents South African Writer Glen Retief"
. Goucher College, 11 October 2011. He later attended a

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before studying English at the University of Cape Town. As an anti-apartheid and LGBT rights activist in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was part of the group that successfully lobbied for sexual orientation to be included in the Constitution of South Africa as a prohibited grounds of

discrimination Discrimination is the act of making unjustified distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong. People may be discriminated on the basis of race, gender, age, relig ...

. His essay "Keeping Sodom Out of the Laager" appeared in ''Defiant Desire'', an influential anthology of South African LGBT writing published in 1996. He currently lives in Pretoria South Africa with his husband, American performance artist and Bible scholar Peterson Toscano,"Gay 'conversion' therapies give moral authority to bullies, says ex-missionary"
'' The Guardian'', 13 April 2012. and teaches English literature and creative writing at

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