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 12
... friend through AIDS , she also shows how friendship can generate dignity and pride and transcendent bonds . These can surpass the divisions which our blackness or whiteness , our maleness or our fe- maleness , our HIV infection — or our ...
... friend through AIDS , she also shows how friendship can generate dignity and pride and transcendent bonds . These can surpass the divisions which our blackness or whiteness , our maleness or our fe- maleness , our HIV infection — or our ...
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... friends and his father ; offered an opportunity to speak , the old man had railed against his son's gay friends , damning their sin . The GLOW members were furious , and decided to organise their own feast after the burial rather than ...
... friends and his father ; offered an opportunity to speak , the old man had railed against his son's gay friends , damning their sin . The GLOW members were furious , and decided to organise their own feast after the burial rather than ...
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... friends around me , despite our differ- ences ; we were all gay , all South African . My strongest feeling was this : we cannot afford to ' lose ' Linda Ngcobo as we have lost to obscurity so many before him . In his name , some ...
... friends around me , despite our differ- ences ; we were all gay , all South African . My strongest feeling was this : we cannot afford to ' lose ' Linda Ngcobo as we have lost to obscurity so many before him . In his name , some ...
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... friends organised by profession ( teachers , nurses , lawyers ) . Entry into these cliques was by word of mouth in ... friend she met while working , she was introduced to the gay male subculture ; through a personal news- paper ...
... friends organised by profession ( teachers , nurses , lawyers ) . Entry into these cliques was by word of mouth in ... friend she met while working , she was introduced to the gay male subculture ; through a personal news- paper ...
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... friends with on - shore gay society , they were assured not only of some extra pocket - money , but hospitality and entertainment too . In Durban , for example , there was an ' entertainer ' who had Sunday night soirées that always ...
... friends with on - shore gay society , they were assured not only of some extra pocket - money , but hospitality and entertainment too . In Durban , for example , there was an ' entertainer ' who had Sunday night soirées that always ...
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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