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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... Linda Ngcobo FIVE WOMEN : Black lesbian life on the Reef ........... As told to Tanya Chan Sam CLIMBING ON HER SHOULDERS : An interview with Umtata's ' first lesbian ' Vera Vimbela with Mike Olivier GOING UNDERGROUND : A visit to gay ...
... Linda Ngcobo FIVE WOMEN : Black lesbian life on the Reef ........... As told to Tanya Chan Sam CLIMBING ON HER SHOULDERS : An interview with Umtata's ' first lesbian ' Vera Vimbela with Mike Olivier GOING UNDERGROUND : A visit to gay ...
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... Linda Ngcobo , died before publication , and another , Koos Prinsloo , died shortly thereafter . Prinsloo , who is rated as perhaps the most gifted short story writer the Afrikaans language has ever produced , chose not to conceal the ...
... Linda Ngcobo , died before publication , and another , Koos Prinsloo , died shortly thereafter . Prinsloo , who is rated as perhaps the most gifted short story writer the Afrikaans language has ever produced , chose not to conceal the ...
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... Linda Ngcobo's funeral is a fitting opening . The time of our community's greatest potential power , constitutionally and socially , is also a time when many of us are at risk of infection with HIV , or are succumbing to the epidemic ...
... Linda Ngcobo's funeral is a fitting opening . The time of our community's greatest potential power , constitutionally and socially , is also a time when many of us are at risk of infection with HIV , or are succumbing to the epidemic ...
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... Linda Ngcobo's funeral There were hundreds of mourners at the funeral service for Linda Ngcobo in Soweto's Phiri Hall on Saturday 13 February 1993. Ngcobo died unexpectedly of AIDS - related renal failure at the age of 28. He was a ...
... Linda Ngcobo's funeral There were hundreds of mourners at the funeral service for Linda Ngcobo in Soweto's Phiri Hall on Saturday 13 February 1993. Ngcobo died unexpectedly of AIDS - related renal failure at the age of 28. He was a ...
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... Linda Ngcobo . After the GLOW section of the pro- gramme was over , the church service resumed ; a preacher labelled GLOW as Ngcobo's ' friends of the flesh ' and explained how the departed had ' repented for his sins ' on his deathbed ...
... Linda Ngcobo . After the GLOW section of the pro- gramme was over , the church service resumed ; a preacher labelled GLOW as Ngcobo's ' friends of the flesh ' and explained how the departed had ' repented for his sins ' on his deathbed ...
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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