Former Generations: The Legacy actress and songstress Letoya Makhene has written to her musician father Blondie Makhene on why she has become lesbian and thanked him for the support.
In a letter to her father, Letoya wrote she had been granted only two choices by God and that was between receiving the gift of love as it was and walking away on a journey that would force her to lose pieces of herself to men who would fail to understand or honour her.
She wrote society had poisoned the idea of dating men as it taught women that men were superior and they should always answer to them.
Women were bullied into keeping silent and not question men for any wrongdoing.
“See, as humble and as respectful as I’ve always been, daddy, I honestly have always battled with this concept. To finally reach adulthood and be financially independent because I made a choice to be a Mrs. A choice to ‘not live in sin’ and where has it gotten me? Only you know the dark truths behind my past relationships, dad.
“Now I lay in the arms of a woman who honours my being, a woman who sees and appreciates me because I am a woman. Someone I will never have to pretend to be less than because my power makes her feel insecure,” wrote Letoya.
The Ngihawukele musician also wrote that people had been vicious about her newly found love, noting that she had been told numerous times to repent and forsake her ancestors as hell awaited her for falling in love with someone of the same gender.
But she said she never anticipated the love she had been praying for would come “wrapped and packaged in the form of a woman”.
“Thank you, daddy, for the blessing you gave us. Yours and God’s are the only blessing that matter. I will continue to pray for women who judge me, yet they subject themselves to abuse and being made to feel less than – just because they are women,” reads the letter in part.
Blondie said he was happy that his daughter had found love and considered it a lesson to men that women could stand on their own without needing anything from men.
“Women have been there for each other through the best and worst times. This has been seen over the ages as women would run to each other when they needed sugar, help with a sick child, advice on how to keep a relationship going, and when another woman struggled with an orgasm they were there for each.
“Letoya has been through a lot and now she found comfort in a woman, there is nothing wrong with that. We know that many men fail to give their women orgasm and just the feeling of being loved. So if they can do it themselves, why not?” asked Blondie.
He said he was disappointed in Christians who discouraged same-sex relationships because “the prominent writer who also wrote the Bible, Shakespeare, was gay. Lebohang and Letoya have my blessings.”
