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 6
... activity ( clubs , bars , sports teams ) to satisfy basic social needs before formalising themselves into self - consciously gay groups and then political move- ments . He looks at the relationship , in South African lesbian and gay ...
... activity ( clubs , bars , sports teams ) to satisfy basic social needs before formalising themselves into self - consciously gay groups and then political move- ments . He looks at the relationship , in South African lesbian and gay ...
Page 9
... activity arising out of South Af- rica's lesbian and gay subcultures , and the relationship between this and the broader liberation struggle . The section begins with two personal accounts , both by gay men , one black , one white , who ...
... activity arising out of South Af- rica's lesbian and gay subcultures , and the relationship between this and the broader liberation struggle . The section begins with two personal accounts , both by gay men , one black , one white , who ...
Page 26
... activity took place in the Burg and Loop Street area and was , interestingly , an important gay meeting place even for those who were not looking to buy sex : one of Lewis and Loots ' informants , an Afrikaner from 26 DEFIANT DESIRE.
... activity took place in the Burg and Loop Street area and was , interestingly , an important gay meeting place even for those who were not looking to buy sex : one of Lewis and Loots ' informants , an Afrikaner from 26 DEFIANT DESIRE.
Page 28
... activity around Burg and Loop Streets , there was very little interaction between the coloured and white gay communities in Cape Town . Robert and Joe both remember that there would , occasionally , be a coloured man at a party ...
... activity around Burg and Loop Streets , there was very little interaction between the coloured and white gay communities in Cape Town . Robert and Joe both remember that there would , occasionally , be a coloured man at a party ...
Page 29
... activity in both black and white communities , the formalisation of homosexual subcultures into a gay movement after the Forest Town raid of 1966 was an entirely white middle - class initiative , informed by the style , ideology and ...
... activity in both black and white communities , the formalisation of homosexual subcultures into a gay movement after the Forest Town raid of 1966 was an entirely white middle - class initiative , informed by the style , ideology and ...
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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