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
... homosexual ' , ' effeminate male ' and ' transvestite ' . In its most wide- spread usage , it refers to the first ... homosexuals . This notion seems somewhat far- fetched . The word ' moffie ' has had an overwhelmingly derogatory ...
... homosexual ' , ' effeminate male ' and ' transvestite ' . In its most wide- spread usage , it refers to the first ... homosexuals . This notion seems somewhat far- fetched . The word ' moffie ' has had an overwhelmingly derogatory ...
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... homosexual experience . In these pages you will find black youths from the townships , white mineworkers , lesbian ... homosexuality exists and flourishes in black communities and cultures . Certainly , there is much in this book that ...
... homosexual experience . In these pages you will find black youths from the townships , white mineworkers , lesbian ... homosexuality exists and flourishes in black communities and cultures . Certainly , there is much in this book that ...
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... homosexuals first consciously came together in lei- sure - time activity ( clubs , bars , sports teams ) to satisfy ... homosexuality , and assesses how the various constitutional models deal with non - discrimination towards lesbian ...
... homosexuals first consciously came together in lei- sure - time activity ( clubs , bars , sports teams ) to satisfy ... homosexuality , and assesses how the various constitutional models deal with non - discrimination towards lesbian ...
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... homosexuals been so integral to a culture . But homosexuality is an integral part of other black South African cultures too . In ' Abangibhamayo bathi ngimnandi ' , McLean and Ngcobo unearth the extent to which homosexual codes are ...
... homosexuals been so integral to a culture . But homosexuality is an integral part of other black South African cultures too . In ' Abangibhamayo bathi ngimnandi ' , McLean and Ngcobo unearth the extent to which homosexual codes are ...
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... homosexuality — the fact that the SADF ' needs moffies ' to serve as a counterpoint to what it means to be a ' real man ' — and describes the ' queer societies ' that gays establish for themselves within the SADF . In a similar vein to ...
... homosexuality — the fact that the SADF ' needs moffies ' to serve as a counterpoint to what it means to be a ' real man ' — and describes the ' queer societies ' that gays establish for themselves within the SADF . In a similar vein to ...
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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