METAMORPHOSIS: THE GRANNY LEE STORY

This excellent documentary looks at the life and time of Leonard du Plooy, better known as South African gay icon and disco queen, Granny Lee.

It traces his life from his birth as a coloured boy in Kimberley in 1919 to his tragic death as a white woman on the Johannesburg-Durban road in 1989.

Excellent archive footage of the disco diva himself, as well as interviews with people who knew him, make for riveting viewing, especially for those who saw him around during the 1970s and 1980s, without knowing much about his background.

The documentary is marred by poor reconstructions, but this aside, this short film is an important document in South Africa's gay history.