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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... Golden City Post and Drum magazine by Dhianaraj Chetty JOHANNESBURG'S ' HEALTH CLUBS ' : Places of erotic langour or prison - houses of desire ?. Peter Galli and Luis Rafael ............. 134 ' MOFFIES EN MANVROUE ' : Gay and lesbian life.
... Golden City Post and Drum magazine by Dhianaraj Chetty JOHANNESBURG'S ' HEALTH CLUBS ' : Places of erotic langour or prison - houses of desire ?. Peter Galli and Luis Rafael ............. 134 ' MOFFIES EN MANVROUE ' : Gay and lesbian life.
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... Golden City Post as well as personal interviews , he reconstructs the moffie drag balls of the 1950s and 1960s . His work demonstrates that homosexuality and drag are an indivisible part of the history and culture of the Western Cape's ...
... Golden City Post as well as personal interviews , he reconstructs the moffie drag balls of the 1950s and 1960s . His work demonstrates that homosexuality and drag are an indivisible part of the history and culture of the Western Cape's ...
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... Golden City Post sold newspapers by focussing on the coloured ' Moffie Drag ' subculture in and around Cape Town , printing sensational ' exposés ' of coloured drag queens and competitions , a 1956 police swoop of the Esplanade ...
... Golden City Post sold newspapers by focussing on the coloured ' Moffie Drag ' subculture in and around Cape Town , printing sensational ' exposés ' of coloured drag queens and competitions , a 1956 police swoop of the Esplanade ...
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... Golden City Post , they became splashy affairs at places like the Kismet Theatre in Athlone . ( See Chetty's ' A drag at Madame Costello's ' , in this volume . ) Within the coloured communities of the Cape Peninsula there were also ...
... Golden City Post , they became splashy affairs at places like the Kismet Theatre in Athlone . ( See Chetty's ' A drag at Madame Costello's ' , in this volume . ) Within the coloured communities of the Cape Peninsula there were also ...
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... Golden City Post in 1955 , of Gertie , a cross- dressing lesbian gangster from the Cape Flats who had many ' girlfriends ' . ( See ' Lesbian gangster ' , in this volume . ) At the time , Gertie claimed to have a lover , for over a year ...
... Golden City Post in 1955 , of Gertie , a cross- dressing lesbian gangster from the Cape Flats who had many ' girlfriends ' . ( See ' Lesbian gangster ' , in this volume . ) At the time , Gertie claimed to have a lover , for over a year ...
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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