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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... coloured community . A number of possible etymologies have been put forward . The most plausi- ble relates it to ' mophrodite ' , a variation of ' hermaphrodite ' . The word ' mofrodiet ' is also used in Dutch ( Jean and William ...
... coloured community . A number of possible etymologies have been put forward . The most plausi- ble relates it to ' mophrodite ' , a variation of ' hermaphrodite ' . The word ' mofrodiet ' is also used in Dutch ( Jean and William ...
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... coloured communities : a provocative illustration of how marginalised groups can make a common virtue of defiance . In ' Moffies en manvroue ' , Lewis and Loots also demonstrate the central role of the ' moffie ' scene in the Cape's ...
... coloured communities : a provocative illustration of how marginalised groups can make a common virtue of defiance . In ' Moffies en manvroue ' , Lewis and Loots also demonstrate the central role of the ' moffie ' scene in the Cape's ...
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... coloured gay man . Mayne's tribute is a fitting close to the book , perhaps just as Gevisser's account of Linda Ngcobo's funeral is a fitting opening . The time of our community's greatest potential power , constitutionally and socially ...
... coloured gay man . Mayne's tribute is a fitting close to the book , perhaps just as Gevisser's account of Linda Ngcobo's funeral is a fitting opening . The time of our community's greatest potential power , constitutionally and socially ...
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... coloured ' Moffie Drag ' subculture in and around Cape Town , printing sensational ' exposés ' of coloured drag queens and competitions , a 1956 police swoop of the Esplanade , Durban's pre - eminent cruising place , resulted in the ...
... coloured ' Moffie Drag ' subculture in and around Cape Town , printing sensational ' exposés ' of coloured drag queens and competitions , a 1956 police swoop of the Esplanade , Durban's pre - eminent cruising place , resulted in the ...
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... coloured sex - workers , who did much busi- ness both with married coloured and African men and with white clients . Most of this activity took place in the Burg and Loop Street area and was , interestingly , an important gay meeting ...
... coloured sex - workers , who did much busi- ness both with married coloured and African men and with white clients . Most of this activity took place in the Burg and Loop Street area and was , interestingly , an important gay meeting ...
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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