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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... South African lesbian and gay organisation from the 1950s to the 1990s Mark Gevisser Two - Where we stand : Moffies and the laager ' UNAPPREHENDED FELONS ' : Gays and lesbians and the law in South Africa . Edwin Cameron KEEPING SODOM ...
... South African lesbian and gay organisation from the 1950s to the 1990s Mark Gevisser Two - Where we stand : Moffies and the laager ' UNAPPREHENDED FELONS ' : Gays and lesbians and the law in South Africa . Edwin Cameron KEEPING SODOM ...
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Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa Edwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser. ' MOFFIES EN MANVROUE ' : Gay and lesbian life histories in contemporary Cape Town .......... Jack Lewis and Francois Loots ABANGIBHAMAYO BATHI NGIMNANDI ( Those who ...
Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa Edwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser. ' MOFFIES EN MANVROUE ' : Gay and lesbian life histories in contemporary Cape Town .......... Jack Lewis and Francois Loots ABANGIBHAMAYO BATHI NGIMNANDI ( Those who ...
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... African 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 ...
... African 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 ...
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Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa Edwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser. Whatever the political and legal consequences of ... African society , Koos Prinsloo's funeral must surely be marked , with pain but also with grim pride , as one of them ...
Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa Edwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser. Whatever the political and legal consequences of ... African society , Koos Prinsloo's funeral must surely be marked , with pain but also with grim pride , as one of them ...
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Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa Edwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser. black youths from the townships, white mineworkers, lesbian sangomas, rich white 'entertainers' from the suburbs, coloured moffie drag queens, crossracial workingclass ...
Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa Edwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser. black youths from the townships, white mineworkers, lesbian sangomas, rich white 'entertainers' from the suburbs, coloured moffie drag queens, crossracial workingclass ...
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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