ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests fundamentally that the sexual identity construction processes of the Black male teachers who engage in same-sex relations is powerfully caught up in the effect of both Zulu culture and religion, in the form of Christianity. It shows how Christianity and culture informed the type of passing strategies adopted by the male participants. The chapter explores the various ways in which culture and religion came to define the normative condition for the male participants through marriage and family. It also explores the effects of culture and religion on the gender performances of the participants. The chapter shows essentially how the passing strategy adopted by the male teachers also functioned as a vehicle for resistance against homophobia. Men who engage in same-sex relations therefore end up passing so as to gain protection and respectability that they require to be granted the status of manhood.
