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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... closet , and ' freedom ' thus has several resonances . In ' Wardrobes ' Nkoli tells of his coming out , first to his family and then to his co - accused in the 1986 Delmas Treason Trial . His account of the way almost every sangoma in ...
... closet , and ' freedom ' thus has several resonances . In ' Wardrobes ' Nkoli tells of his coming out , first to his family and then to his co - accused in the 1986 Delmas Treason Trial . His account of the way almost every sangoma in ...
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... closet , you see , and it's coming out of the closet as well.'13 The demographic changes in gay subculture led to a heightened openness , in Johannesburg as well as Pretoria . ' Andre ' , a bank clerk who moved to Hillbrow from the ...
... closet , you see , and it's coming out of the closet as well.'13 The demographic changes in gay subculture led to a heightened openness , in Johannesburg as well as Pretoria . ' Andre ' , a bank clerk who moved to Hillbrow from the ...
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... closet , he has to leave his home and family in a very big way . Just to be gay he has to fight all that conservative Afrikaner moralism and Calvinism . He is expelled , in a way . So he finds a new family among other gays in the city ...
... closet , he has to leave his home and family in a very big way . Just to be gay he has to fight all that conservative Afrikaner moralism and Calvinism . He is expelled , in a way . So he finds a new family among other gays in the city ...
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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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