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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Page ix
... discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation . Indeed , in his first presidential pronouncement , during his victory speech on the Grand Parade in Cape Town , Nelson Mandela made a point of saying that discrimination against gays ...
... discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation . Indeed , in his first presidential pronouncement , during his victory speech on the Grand Parade in Cape Town , Nelson Mandela made a point of saying that discrimination against gays ...
Page x
... discrimination clause makes it into the final constitution will depend on the savvy of the gay community - on both its lobbying skills and its ability to operate as a powerful and coherent political minority . There is an opinion within ...
... discrimination clause makes it into the final constitution will depend on the savvy of the gay community - on both its lobbying skills and its ability to operate as a powerful and coherent political minority . There is an opinion within ...
Page 4
... discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation , and this is reflected in the present draft Constitu- tion . And yet the status of gay and lesbian issues in the broader movement for democracy remains tenuous : gay issues continue ...
... discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation , and this is reflected in the present draft Constitu- tion . And yet the status of gay and lesbian issues in the broader movement for democracy remains tenuous : gay issues continue ...
Page 6
... discrimination towards lesbian and gay rights . In ' Keeping sodom out of the laager ' , Retief looks at the ways the apart- heid system has policed sexual minorities . Retief points to the link between apartheid oppression and gay ...
... discrimination towards lesbian and gay rights . In ' Keeping sodom out of the laager ' , Retief looks at the ways the apart- heid system has policed sexual minorities . Retief points to the link between apartheid oppression and gay ...
Page 10
... discrimination in its proposed Bill of Rights . And the physical manifestation of this new liberationism is described in ' Pride or protest ? ' , in which Gevisser and Reid give an account of GLOW's annual Lesbian and Gay Pride Marches ...
... discrimination in its proposed Bill of Rights . And the physical manifestation of this new liberationism is described in ' Pride or protest ? ' , in which Gevisser and Reid give an account of GLOW's annual Lesbian and Gay Pride Marches ...
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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