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
... bar , in public places where you socialize and where you cruise . " Here was a head of police asserting gay peoples ' entitlement to legal part- nerships , to full police protection , even to soliciting sex in public places . Standing ...
... bar , in public places where you socialize and where you cruise . " Here was a head of police asserting gay peoples ' entitlement to legal part- nerships , to full police protection , even to soliciting sex in public places . Standing ...
Page 6
... bars and house - parties of the 1950s through the law reform movement of 1968 to the gay upsurge in the 1980s and the current wave of more radicalised lesbian and gay activism , Gevisser creates a context for the rest of the book . He ...
... bars and house - parties of the 1950s through the law reform movement of 1968 to the gay upsurge in the 1980s and the current wave of more radicalised lesbian and gay activism , Gevisser creates a context for the rest of the book . He ...
Page 9
... bar culture , to social support organisations , to political activism . Section Five ' Making waves : Lesbian and gay activism ' examines the current political activity arising out of South Af- rica's lesbian and gay subcultures , and ...
... bar culture , to social support organisations , to political activism . Section Five ' Making waves : Lesbian and gay activism ' examines the current political activity arising out of South Af- rica's lesbian and gay subcultures , and ...
Page 19
... bars ; even though these bars were ' straight ' , they were patronised by gay Johannesburgers looking to meet off - duty soldiers . That , says ' Gareth ' , who was in his late teens at the time , ' is how Joubert Park became the first ...
... bars ; even though these bars were ' straight ' , they were patronised by gay Johannesburgers looking to meet off - duty soldiers . That , says ' Gareth ' , who was in his late teens at the time , ' is how Joubert Park became the first ...
Page 21
... bar , club or coffee - shop , the other significant gathering place for lesbians in the 1950s and 1960s , as now , was to be found in the sporting clubs . In smaller cities , this was often the only option : ' Cleo ' , a woman active in ...
... bar , club or coffee - shop , the other significant gathering place for lesbians in the 1950s and 1960s , as now , was to be found in the sporting clubs . In smaller cities , this was often the only option : ' Cleo ' , a woman active in ...
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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