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 17
... Durban ; incomplete newspaper- clipping files ; the ideologically charged interpretations of activists ; the work of the very few other people who too have attempted to document homosexual experience in South Africa . Despite all the ...
... Durban ; incomplete newspaper- clipping files ; the ideologically charged interpretations of activists ; the work of the very few other people who too have attempted to document homosexual experience in South Africa . Despite all the ...
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... Durban's pre - eminent cruising place , resulted in the arrest of 30 men who were charged with indecent assault . In his judgement , the magistrate , JL Pretorius issued sentences ranging from six to 15 months , declaring that ' your ...
... Durban's pre - eminent cruising place , resulted in the arrest of 30 men who were charged with indecent assault . In his judgement , the magistrate , JL Pretorius issued sentences ranging from six to 15 months , declaring that ' your ...
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... Durban , the Sea Point Promenade and Gardens area in Cape Town . Along with a few of the bars , these cruising venues remained active after the war and , in all three cities , gay men continued to have public meeting places into the ...
... Durban , the Sea Point Promenade and Gardens area in Cape Town . Along with a few of the bars , these cruising venues remained active after the war and , in all three cities , gay men continued to have public meeting places into the ...
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... Durban in those years , remembers that the only way you could meet someone was through cricket — there was no other place ... We knew that those girls ' played cricket , so we joined too ... The girls used to play at Albert Park , and ...
... Durban in those years , remembers that the only way you could meet someone was through cricket — there was no other place ... We knew that those girls ' played cricket , so we joined too ... The girls used to play at Albert Park , and ...
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... Durban to Johannesburg in 1959 , recalls : It was a place with atmosphere , with the strict dress code of jacket and tie . A social club , where everybody knew everybody . In later days you'd see someone in his suit disappear into the ...
... Durban to Johannesburg in 1959 , recalls : It was a place with atmosphere , with the strict dress code of jacket and tie . A social club , where everybody knew everybody . In later days you'd see someone in his suit disappear into the ...
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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