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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... Drag queens , comrades , and the Lesbian and Gay Pride March ...... 278 Mark Gevisser and Graeme Reid ' WHITE RAPISTS MADE COLOUREDS ( AND HOMOSEXUALS ) ' : The Winnie Mandela Trial and the politics of race and sexuality ... 284 Rachel ...
... Drag queens , comrades , and the Lesbian and Gay Pride March ...... 278 Mark Gevisser and Graeme Reid ' WHITE RAPISTS MADE COLOUREDS ( AND HOMOSEXUALS ) ' : The Winnie Mandela Trial and the politics of race and sexuality ... 284 Rachel ...
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... drag queens, crossracial workingclass couples, political prisoners and sex workers. Muchof thiswork is pathbreaking, particularly that which details forthe first time theextentto which homosexuality exists andflourishes in black ...
... drag queens, crossracial workingclass couples, political prisoners and sex workers. Muchof thiswork is pathbreaking, particularly that which details forthe first time theextentto which homosexuality exists andflourishes in black ...
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... drag queens , cross - racial working - class couples , political prisoners and sex workers . Much of this work is path - breaking , particularly that which details for the first time the extent to which homosexuality exists and ...
... drag queens , cross - racial working - class couples , political prisoners and sex workers . Much of this work is path - breaking , particularly that which details for the first time the extent to which homosexuality exists and ...
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... drag queens from the 1950s and 1960s and McLean and Ngcobo's township youths of the pre- sent day wilfully and often playfully subvert their preordained gender and sex roles . We see subterfuge in the way Johannesburg's ' Health Clubs ...
... drag queens from the 1950s and 1960s and McLean and Ngcobo's township youths of the pre- sent day wilfully and often playfully subvert their preordained gender and sex roles . We see subterfuge in the way Johannesburg's ' Health Clubs ...
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... drag queens . Should the lesbian and gay movement , in its at- tempt to present a serious and compelling argument for equality , allow drag queens to participate in a pride march ? This is a continuing discussion among gay activists and ...
... drag queens . Should the lesbian and gay movement , in its at- tempt to present a serious and compelling argument for equality , allow drag queens to participate in a pride march ? This is a continuing discussion among gay activists and ...
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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