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 xiii
... homophobic social responses . Recently , however , it has been reappropri- ated by homosexuals and transvestites in ... homophobes . Shaun de Waal ONE - Overviews DEFIANT DESIRE : An Introduction Mark Gevisser xiii Etymological note: On ...
... homophobic social responses . Recently , however , it has been reappropri- ated by homosexuals and transvestites in ... homophobes . Shaun de Waal ONE - Overviews DEFIANT DESIRE : An Introduction Mark Gevisser xiii Etymological note: On ...
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... homophobic society in which they have had to develop , these ' queer societies ' are necessarily ' outsider ' subcultures . They are de- fined by masquerade , resistance , subterfuge and sublimation . We see masquerade and resistance in ...
... homophobic society in which they have had to develop , these ' queer societies ' are necessarily ' outsider ' subcultures . They are de- fined by masquerade , resistance , subterfuge and sublimation . We see masquerade and resistance in ...
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... Toms also addresses the more surprising subject of the implied homophobia he encountered within the anti - apartheid End Conscription Campaign . Both Nkoli and Toms bear witness to how difficult it has been for gay people 9 Introduction.
... Toms also addresses the more surprising subject of the implied homophobia he encountered within the anti - apartheid End Conscription Campaign . Both Nkoli and Toms bear witness to how difficult it has been for gay people 9 Introduction.
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... homophobia that exists within the ' democratic movement ' . Holmes offers a complex analysis of the defence put up for Winnie Man- dela during her 1991 kidnapping and assault trial . Mandela claimed that she had ordered four youths to ...
... homophobia that exists within the ' democratic movement ' . Holmes offers a complex analysis of the defence put up for Winnie Man- dela during her 1991 kidnapping and assault trial . Mandela claimed that she had ordered four youths to ...
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... homophobia's got to go ! ' ; the clenched and raised fists protruding out of impossi- bly - packed busses ; the tensions , of course , between a political movement and a family laying claim to a departed soldier . Linda Ngcobo's death ...
... homophobia's got to go ! ' ; the clenched and raised fists protruding out of impossi- bly - packed busses ; the tensions , of course , between a political movement and a family laying claim to a departed soldier . Linda Ngcobo's death ...
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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