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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... cultural forms 158 186 ..... 193 198 202 THE ARISTA SISTERS , SEPTEMBER 1984 : A personal account of army drag .... 209 Matthew Krouse FROM ADA TO ZELDA : Notes on gays and language in South Africa Gerrit Olivier 219 EXIT : Gay ...
... cultural forms 158 186 ..... 193 198 202 THE ARISTA SISTERS , SEPTEMBER 1984 : A personal account of army drag .... 209 Matthew Krouse FROM ADA TO ZELDA : Notes on gays and language in South Africa Gerrit Olivier 219 EXIT : Gay ...
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... cultures have to be done away with too . It's one thing for you to have your rights and equality in the law , it's quite another to have them each day in the street , at work , in the bar , in public places where you socialize and where ...
... cultures have to be done away with too . It's one thing for you to have your rights and equality in the law , it's quite another to have them each day in the street , at work , in the bar , in public places where you socialize and where ...
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... to endeavor , more than ever , to fold their concerns into this country's growing culture of human rights . Single - issue gay politics have never worked here . Whatever the political and legal consequences of Section 8 , X.
... to endeavor , more than ever , to fold their concerns into this country's growing culture of human rights . Single - issue gay politics have never worked here . Whatever the political and legal consequences of Section 8 , X.
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... culture? What parallel cultures have existed, and how havethey organised themselves? And how hasthe increasingly vocal presence ofblacks and women transformed both the style and ideologyofa SouthAfrican 'gay identity'? Thisinturn leads ...
... culture? What parallel cultures have existed, and how havethey organised themselves? And how hasthe increasingly vocal presence ofblacks and women transformed both the style and ideologyofa SouthAfrican 'gay identity'? Thisinturn leads ...
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... details for the first time the extent to which homosexuality exists and flourishes in black communities and cultures . Certainly , there is much in this book that stems 3 DEFIANT DESIRE Mark Gevisser and Edwin Cameron.
... details for the first time the extent to which homosexuality exists and flourishes in black communities and cultures . Certainly , there is much in this book that stems 3 DEFIANT DESIRE Mark Gevisser and Edwin Cameron.
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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