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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... African Literature ........ 232 Five - Making waves : Lesbian and WARDROBES : gay activism Coming out as a black gay activist in South Africa ................. 249 Simon Nkoli IVAN TOMS IS A FAIRY ?: End Conscription Campaign ,
... African Literature ........ 232 Five - Making waves : Lesbian and WARDROBES : gay activism Coming out as a black gay activist in South Africa ................. 249 Simon Nkoli IVAN TOMS IS A FAIRY ?: End Conscription Campaign ,
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... Simon Nkoli and Ivan Toms worked to integrate their gay identities with their anti - apartheid activism . Theirs are classic prison stories , but with a difference : for both Nkoli and Toms , physical imprisonment worked very strongly ...
... Simon Nkoli and Ivan Toms worked to integrate their gay identities with their anti - apartheid activism . Theirs are classic prison stories , but with a difference : for both Nkoli and Toms , physical imprisonment worked very strongly ...
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... Simon Nkoli spoke , making explicit Ngcobo's homosexuality in what was as much a memorial to a dead comrade as an impassioned plea for tolerance and a call - to - arms for rights . In the traditional style of funeral oration , Nkoli ...
... Simon Nkoli spoke , making explicit Ngcobo's homosexuality in what was as much a memorial to a dead comrade as an impassioned plea for tolerance and a call - to - arms for rights . In the traditional style of funeral oration , Nkoli ...
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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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