South African queer celebrity parents are helping to normalise rainbow families Many among us consider becoming a parent one of their biggest desires in life.
For gay people, though, having kids isn’t necessarily as, well, straightforward as it is for the rest of the population. With that being said, the number of gay parents is steadily growing — also in the sphere of celebrity.
With their wide-reaching platforms, these queer celebrity household names are torchbearers, shedding light on and drawing the attention to the myriads of rainbow families that exist in South Africa.
Caster Semenya The track star and her wife Violet welcomed their first child, Oratile (who already has her own Instagram page!), in 2019, and Semenya announced that they were pregnant with baby number two last year.