Defiant Desire: Gay and Lesbian Lives in South AfricaEdwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser Defiant Desire records the lives of lesbian and gay South Africans of all races as they have lived in the face of censure, denial and oppression. The history of gay identity in South Africa is here in its past and present aspects: from a drag salon in Woodstock to a gay "shebeen" in kwaThema; from a church in a Pretoria nightclub to Johannesburg's lesbian and gay pride march; from Afrikaans love poetry to new activism. The book is a document of lesbian and gay struggle, and indispensable for those interested in the sexual politics coursing beneath the country's troubled passage to democracy. |
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Page vi
... Cape Town .......... Jack Lewis and Francois Loots ABANGIBHAMAYO BATHI NGIMNANDI ( Those who fuck me say I'm tasty ) : Gay sexuality in Reef townships Hugh McLean and Linda Ngcobo FIVE WOMEN : Black lesbian life on the Reef ...
... Cape Town .......... Jack Lewis and Francois Loots ABANGIBHAMAYO BATHI NGIMNANDI ( Those who fuck me say I'm tasty ) : Gay sexuality in Reef townships Hugh McLean and Linda Ngcobo FIVE WOMEN : Black lesbian life on the Reef ...
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... Cape ........... Mary Armour and Sheila Lapinsky 295 LIVING WITH LOSS IN THE BEST WAY WE KNOW HOW : AIDS and gay men in Cape Town ........... ....... 301 John V Pegge OF GAY RIGHTS AND THE PITFALLS OF THE ' PC ' : A Polemic ...
... Cape ........... Mary Armour and Sheila Lapinsky 295 LIVING WITH LOSS IN THE BEST WAY WE KNOW HOW : AIDS and gay men in Cape Town ........... ....... 301 John V Pegge OF GAY RIGHTS AND THE PITFALLS OF THE ' PC ' : A Polemic ...
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... Cape Town , Nelson Mandela made a point of saying that discrimination against gays and lesbians would no longer be tolerated . Two months later , opening South Africa's first gay film festival , the new Minister of Safety and Security ...
... Cape Town , Nelson Mandela made a point of saying that discrimination against gays and lesbians would no longer be tolerated . Two months later , opening South Africa's first gay film festival , the new Minister of Safety and Security ...
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... Cape Town as a possible South African origin — seem cred- ible . The word ' mophy ' is recorded in Sea Slang of 1929 and by slang lexicographer Eric Partridge . It is a term of contempt among seamen for delicate , well - groomed ...
... Cape Town as a possible South African origin — seem cred- ible . The word ' mophy ' is recorded in Sea Slang of 1929 and by slang lexicographer Eric Partridge . It is a term of contempt among seamen for delicate , well - groomed ...
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... Cape Town's coloured communities : a provocative illustration of how marginalised groups can make a common virtue of defiance . In ' Moffies en manvroue ' , Lewis and Loots also demonstrate the central role of the ' moffie ' scene in ...
... Cape Town's coloured communities : a provocative illustration of how marginalised groups can make a common virtue of defiance . In ' Moffies en manvroue ' , Lewis and Loots also demonstrate the central role of the ' moffie ' scene in ...
Contents
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Moffies and the laager | 87 |
Gay and lesbian life histories in contemporary Cape Town | 140 |
ABANGIBHAMAYO BATHI NGIMNANDI | 158 |
Gay publishing in South Africa | 225 |
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