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 ix
... National Congress - led government . South Africa is the first country in the world to offer gay and lesbian peo- ple explicit protection in its constitution : Section 8 of the Chapter on Fundamental Rights outlaws unfair discrimination ...
... National Congress - led government . South Africa is the first country in the world to offer gay and lesbian peo- ple explicit protection in its constitution : Section 8 of the Chapter on Fundamental Rights outlaws unfair discrimination ...
Page x
... national television during the election campaign by fundamentalist Christian and Muslim religious parties , ANC Western Cape leader Allan Boesak himself a minister of the church defended the rights of gay people to equality . Also ...
... national television during the election campaign by fundamentalist Christian and Muslim religious parties , ANC Western Cape leader Allan Boesak himself a minister of the church defended the rights of gay people to equality . Also ...
Page xi
... national television . If we are to pinpoint signal moments in the " coming out " of gay South African society , Koos Prinsloo's funeral must surely be marked , with pain but also with grim pride , as one of them . And the South African ...
... national television . If we are to pinpoint signal moments in the " coming out " of gay South African society , Koos Prinsloo's funeral must surely be marked , with pain but also with grim pride , as one of them . And the South African ...
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... National Congress came to agree . A clause in the ANC's proposed Bill of Rights ( emulated in that of the Inkatha Freedom Party and the Democratic Party ) outlawed discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation , and this is ...
... National Congress came to agree . A clause in the ANC's proposed Bill of Rights ( emulated in that of the Inkatha Freedom Party and the Democratic Party ) outlawed discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation , and this is ...
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... National ' values in the face of what was charac- terised as a ' threat to white civilization ' . Anything deemed threatening - including gays was ' expelled from the laager ' . *** Despite the apartheid state's repression , various gay ...
... National ' values in the face of what was charac- terised as a ' threat to white civilization ' . Anything deemed threatening - including gays was ' expelled from the laager ' . *** Despite the apartheid state's repression , various gay ...
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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