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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... Gay sexuality in Reef townships Hugh McLean and Linda Ngcobo FIVE WOMEN : Black lesbian life on the Reef ........... As told to Tanya Chan Sam CLIMBING ON HER SHOULDERS : An interview with Umtata's ' first lesbian ' Vera Vimbela with ...
... Gay sexuality in Reef townships Hugh McLean and Linda Ngcobo FIVE WOMEN : Black lesbian life on the Reef ........... As told to Tanya Chan Sam CLIMBING ON HER SHOULDERS : An interview with Umtata's ' first lesbian ' Vera Vimbela with ...
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Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa Edwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser. IVAN TOMS IS A FAIRY ?: End Conscription Campaign , and me . The South African Defence Force , the Ivan Toms IDENTITY CROSSFIRE : On being a black gay student activist ...
Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa Edwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser. IVAN TOMS IS A FAIRY ?: End Conscription Campaign , and me . The South African Defence Force , the Ivan Toms IDENTITY CROSSFIRE : On being a black gay student activist ...
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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 ...
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... gay men and lesbians in South Africa . It does not and cannot claim to be a ... black youths from the townships , white mineworkers , lesbian sangomas ... black communities and cultures . Certainly , there is much in this book that stems ...
... gay men and lesbians in South Africa . It does not and cannot claim to be a ... black youths from the townships , white mineworkers , lesbian sangomas ... black communities and cultures . Certainly , there is much in this book that stems ...
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... black people largely been excluded from ' mainstream ' gay culture ? What parallel cultures have existed , and how have they organised themselves ? And how has the increasingly vocal presence of blacks and women transformed both the ...
... black people largely been excluded from ' mainstream ' gay culture ? What parallel cultures have existed , and how have they organised themselves ? And how has the increasingly vocal presence of blacks and women transformed both the ...
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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