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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... issue is fragile indeed : South Africa remains , in parts , a deeply conservative and religious land . Given more obvious political divisions , a conservative coalition , a " Moral Majority " across racial lines , has yet to emerge ...
... issue is fragile indeed : South Africa remains , in parts , a deeply conservative and religious land . Given more obvious political divisions , a conservative coalition , a " Moral Majority " across racial lines , has yet to emerge ...
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... issues , the problems , the contradictions and the connecting points that make up our lives . The book takes as its starting - point that there is no single , essential ' gay identity ' in South Africa . What has passed for ' the gay ...
... issues , the problems , the contradictions and the connecting points that make up our lives . The book takes as its starting - point that there is no single , essential ' gay identity ' in South Africa . What has passed for ' the gay ...
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... issues in the broader movement for democracy remains tenuous : gay issues continue to be seen as both frivolous and ' un - African ' . The contributions by Nkoli 4 DEFIANT DESIRE.
... issues in the broader movement for democracy remains tenuous : gay issues continue to be seen as both frivolous and ' un - African ' . The contributions by Nkoli 4 DEFIANT DESIRE.
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... issue with any suggestion that the two can be equated : " To say that heterosexism is the same as racism is actually ... issues into the agenda of the broader anti - apartheid movement . The success of this strategy is charted in ' The ...
... issue with any suggestion that the two can be equated : " To say that heterosexism is the same as racism is actually ... issues into the agenda of the broader anti - apartheid movement . The success of this strategy is charted in ' The ...
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... issues of lesbian marginality within gay politics and lesbian separatism . In South Africa , AIDS has long ceased to be ... issue with several gay holy cows . These include the very use of the word ' gay ' . *** The concluding section of ...
... issues of lesbian marginality within gay politics and lesbian separatism . In South Africa , AIDS has long ceased to be ... issue with several gay holy cows . These include the very use of the word ' gay ' . *** The concluding section of ...
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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