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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... become fashionable . Almost in response , the annual October gay pride event , which has taken place in Johannesburg since 1990 , has decided this year to transform itself from a " March " to a " Parade " . To some gay South Africans ...
... become fashionable . Almost in response , the annual October gay pride event , which has taken place in Johannesburg since 1990 , has decided this year to transform itself from a " March " to a " Parade " . To some gay South Africans ...
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... becomes , there has to be a powerful organisation on the ground to ensure that lofty constitutional principles are indeed applied . The unfair discrimination pro- hibition of Section 8 could mobilize the kind of mass - based lesbian and ...
... becomes , there has to be a powerful organisation on the ground to ensure that lofty constitutional principles are indeed applied . The unfair discrimination pro- hibition of Section 8 could mobilize the kind of mass - based lesbian and ...
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... become another important vehicle for popular expres- sion . In ' Exit ' , Davidson and Nerio look at the role that this newspaper has played in the politics and formation of a gay subculture . If drag , moffietaal ( gay language ) and ...
... become another important vehicle for popular expres- sion . In ' Exit ' , Davidson and Nerio look at the role that this newspaper has played in the politics and formation of a gay subculture . If drag , moffietaal ( gay language ) and ...
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... become very liberal now . Those days you knew where you were and you stayed there . ' Apart from the flatland party scene and the occasionally welcoming bar , club or coffee - shop , the other significant gathering place for lesbians in ...
... become very liberal now . Those days you knew where you were and you stayed there . ' Apart from the flatland party scene and the occasionally welcoming bar , club or coffee - shop , the other significant gathering place for lesbians in ...
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... become ' community leaders ' by taking the attendant risks of public life . Many of the male ' entertainers ' , for example , were wealthy : they had the means and the space to throw large parties . In contrast , lesbian parties , in ...
... become ' community leaders ' by taking the attendant risks of public life . Many of the male ' entertainers ' , for example , were wealthy : they had the means and the space to throw large parties . In contrast , lesbian parties , 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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