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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... GLOW , OLGA , ABIGALE , Yachad and Sunday's Women , who supported this project by generating ideas and submitting proposals and contributions . Very special thanks are due to Shaun de Waal . He acted with generosity and insight as our ...
... GLOW , OLGA , ABIGALE , Yachad and Sunday's Women , who supported this project by generating ideas and submitting proposals and contributions . Very special thanks are due to Shaun de Waal . He acted with generosity and insight as our ...
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... ( GLOW ) lead lives unexpectedly integrated into township culture . They are children of parents who know of their sons ' homosexuality , and lovers of ' straight ' men , or injongas , who collude in the masquerade that their sexual ...
... ( GLOW ) lead lives unexpectedly integrated into township culture . They are children of parents who know of their sons ' homosexuality , and lovers of ' straight ' men , or injongas , who collude in the masquerade that their sexual ...
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... GLOW Lesbian Forum to collect narratives of black lesbian life . While ' Five women ' is not as comprehensive as the study of McLean and Ngcobo , it presents five moving vignettes , one of which is of a sangoma ( traditional healer ) ...
... GLOW Lesbian Forum to collect narratives of black lesbian life . While ' Five women ' is not as comprehensive as the study of McLean and Ngcobo , it presents five moving vignettes , one of which is of a sangoma ( traditional healer ) ...
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... GLOW's annual Lesbian and Gay Pride Marches that have taken place since 1990 . But in ' Pride or protest ? ' we also see the dilemmas caused by the gay movement's new radicalism : most white gay men are alienated from the movement , and ...
... GLOW's annual Lesbian and Gay Pride Marches that have taken place since 1990 . But in ' Pride or protest ? ' we also see the dilemmas caused by the gay movement's new radicalism : most white gay men are alienated from the movement , and ...
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... GLOW , the Gay and Lesbian Organisation of the Witwatersrand , and the organiser of the annual Miss GLOW drag show , the highlight of gay Soweto's calendar . He was also a loyal son who lived with his family in their township home , and ...
... GLOW , the Gay and Lesbian Organisation of the Witwatersrand , and the organiser of the annual Miss GLOW drag show , the highlight of gay Soweto's calendar . He was also a loyal son who lived with his family in their township home , and ...
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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