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 21
... knew where you were and you stayed there . ' Apart from the flatland party scene and the occasionally welcoming bar , club or coffee - shop , the other significant gathering place for lesbians in the 1950s and 1960s , as now , was to be ...
... knew where you were and you stayed there . ' Apart from the flatland party scene and the occasionally welcoming bar , club or coffee - shop , the other significant gathering place for lesbians in the 1950s and 1960s , as now , was to be ...
Page 22
... knew everybody . In later days you'd see someone in his suit disappear into the toilets and re - emerge in jeans and a casual shirt for the club . In those days , none of the bars were owned by people from within the gay commu- nity ...
... knew everybody . In later days you'd see someone in his suit disappear into the toilets and re - emerge in jeans and a casual shirt for the club . In those days , none of the bars were owned by people from within the gay commu- nity ...
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... knew exactly what was going on anyway . Hannah , an ' entertainer ' in her own right in lesbian circles , also took her own precautions : ' As long as there were no men present , the women felt safe from the law too . If the cops raided ...
... knew exactly what was going on anyway . Hannah , an ' entertainer ' in her own right in lesbian circles , also took her own precautions : ' As long as there were no men present , the women felt safe from the law too . If the cops raided ...
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... knew that Peps was a bit odd , but we were never bothered . While white gay men gathered around Sea Point , coloured gay men became very much part of the texture of District Six , particularly along its main road , Hanover Street ...
... knew that Peps was a bit odd , but we were never bothered . While white gay men gathered around Sea Point , coloured gay men became very much part of the texture of District Six , particularly along its main road , Hanover Street ...
Page 30
... knew about it . And that was the party's downfall : it was well - known that Priscilla [ the police ] would hang around the New Library to pick up information about the gay scene . So of course they found out about it . In the style of ...
... knew about it . And that was the party's downfall : it was well - known that Priscilla [ the police ] would hang around the New Library to pick up information about the gay scene . So of course they found out about it . In the style 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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