Botswanan trans-lesbian Prisca Mogapi knew he needed to come out to her family, but couldn't find the right words. That all changed when a local newspaper outed him, thus jump starting his career as the African nation's leading queer activist. Now Mogapi - who prefers to be called Skipper - works underground to fight Botswana's queer repressions.

While we would have loved to sit down with Skipper, we had to settle for a brief, yet informative, email exchange in which Mogapi gabs about growing up in Botswana, how homophobic laws leave a lot of guess work and why the grass isn't necessarily greener in gay-inclusive South Africa.

Read all about it, after the jump…

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