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 19
... Hillbrow / Joubert Park area , with its proximity to town and its cheap high - density accommodation , became an obvious and acceptable neighbourhood for young people to live alone . Not surprisingly , gay men and lesbi- ans flocked ...
... Hillbrow / Joubert Park area , with its proximity to town and its cheap high - density accommodation , became an obvious and acceptable neighbourhood for young people to live alone . Not surprisingly , gay men and lesbi- ans flocked ...
Page 27
... Hillbrow area in Johannesburg from the 1940s onwards , Cape Town also developed several proto - gay neighborhoods in the 1950s . White gay men , for example , tended to congregate around the Atlantic seaboard , in Sea Point and Bantry ...
... Hillbrow area in Johannesburg from the 1940s onwards , Cape Town also developed several proto - gay neighborhoods in the 1950s . White gay men , for example , tended to congregate around the Atlantic seaboard , in Sea Point and Bantry ...
Page 38
... Hillbrow in Johannesburg at least , by the formalisation of an area where gay people had always lived into a clearly identifiable ' gay neighbour- hood ' , with gay bars , gay businesses , and a new level of tolerance from other ...
... Hillbrow in Johannesburg at least , by the formalisation of an area where gay people had always lived into a clearly identifiable ' gay neighbour- hood ' , with gay bars , gay businesses , and a new level of tolerance from other ...
Page 40
... Hillbrow tower in full drag ! Then they came back and did the show . They had to walk the ramp and answer questions like , ' What would you do if you were a real woman ? ' Of course , the style then was very kappies - en - rokkies - it ...
... Hillbrow tower in full drag ! Then they came back and did the show . They had to walk the ramp and answer questions like , ' What would you do if you were a real woman ? ' Of course , the style then was very kappies - en - rokkies - it ...
Page 41
... Hill- brow . Almost immediately , this became the jam - packed neighborhood watering hole of Hillbrow's fast - growing gay community . ' Jock ' , a gay man who lived in Hill- brow at the time , remembers that it was always full . People ...
... Hill- brow . Almost immediately , this became the jam - packed neighborhood watering hole of Hillbrow's fast - growing gay community . ' Jock ' , a gay man who lived in Hill- brow at the time , remembers that it was always full . People ...
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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