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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Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa Edwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser. Published ... rights reserved . No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or ... Gays - South Africa - Identity 2. Lesbians - South Africa - Identity . 3. Gays ...
Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa Edwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser. Published ... rights reserved . No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or ... Gays - South Africa - Identity 2. Lesbians - South Africa - Identity . 3. Gays ...
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... gay rights within the liberation movement .... 269 Derrick Fine and Julia Nicol PRIDE OR PROTEST ?: Drag queens , comrades , and the Lesbian and Gay Pride March ...... 278 Mark Gevisser and Graeme Reid ' WHITE RAPISTS MADE COLOUREDS ...
... gay rights within the liberation movement .... 269 Derrick Fine and Julia Nicol PRIDE OR PROTEST ?: Drag queens , comrades , and the Lesbian and Gay Pride March ...... 278 Mark Gevisser and Graeme Reid ' WHITE RAPISTS MADE COLOUREDS ...
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... rights of gay people to equality . Also during the campaign , spokesperson Baleka Kgositsile , now a leader of the women's caucus in parliament , unequivocally affirmed the ANC's commitment to its gay equality platform . But , already ...
... rights of gay people to equality . Also during the campaign , spokesperson Baleka Kgositsile , now a leader of the women's caucus in parliament , unequivocally affirmed the ANC's commitment to its gay equality platform . But , already ...
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... gay culture ? What parallel cultures have existed , and how have they ... movement itself , attempts to weave these people together with a thread of ... gay South Afri- cans , ' liberation ' is a particularly loaded word . What role does ...
... gay culture ? What parallel cultures have existed , and how have they ... movement itself , attempts to weave these people together with a thread of ... gay South Afri- cans , ' liberation ' is a particularly loaded word . What role does ...
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... gay organisation in South Africa , ' A different fight for freedom ' . By giving a detailed account of gay and lesbian organisation from the bars and house - parties of the 1950s through the law reform movement of 1968 to the gay ...
... gay organisation in South Africa , ' A different fight for freedom ' . By giving a detailed account of gay and lesbian organisation from the bars and house - parties of the 1950s through the law reform movement of 1968 to the gay ...
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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