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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... gender equity . Who is to say that an unpopular clause on sexual equality will not be jettisoned in order to salvage other aspects like land rights or economic equity considered more important to reconstruction and development ? To its ...
... gender equity . Who is to say that an unpopular clause on sexual equality will not be jettisoned in order to salvage other aspects like land rights or economic equity considered more important to reconstruction and development ? To its ...
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... gender and sexuality — that the apartheid system attempted to im- pose upon all of us . - South African homosexual experience is also unique because of the demo- graphic divergences our country reflects . From the ' developed world ...
... gender and sexuality — that the apartheid system attempted to im- pose upon all of us . - South African homosexual experience is also unique because of the demo- graphic divergences our country reflects . From the ' developed world ...
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... gender ; the interaction between middle- class whites and working - class blacks in the creation of a gay subculture ; the reasons for so - called lesbian ' invisibility ' . Gevisser explores how homosexuals first consciously came ...
... gender ; the interaction between middle- class whites and working - class blacks in the creation of a gay subculture ; the reasons for so - called lesbian ' invisibility ' . Gevisser explores how homosexuals first consciously came ...
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... borne of scant resources and much imagination , nodding at gender - inversion with no more than a frilly shirt , a pair 14 A history of South African lesbian gay organisation from the 1950s to the 1990s Mark Gevisser.
... borne of scant resources and much imagination , nodding at gender - inversion with no more than a frilly shirt , a pair 14 A history of South African lesbian gay organisation from the 1950s to the 1990s Mark Gevisser.
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... gender ; the different relationships of middle - class white people and working - class black people to a homosexual subculture ; the marginality and invisibility of lesbian voices in both black and white gay subcultures ; the ...
... gender ; the different relationships of middle - class white people and working - class black people to a homosexual subculture ; the marginality and invisibility of lesbian voices in both black and white gay subcultures ; the ...
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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