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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... later , opening South Africa's first gay film festival , the new Minister of Safety and Security for the FWV province , Jessie Duarte , offered her- self as a patron of GLOW ( Gay and Lesbian Organisation of the Witwatersrand ) and said ...
... later , opening South Africa's first gay film festival , the new Minister of Safety and Security for the FWV province , Jessie Duarte , offered her- self as a patron of GLOW ( Gay and Lesbian Organisation of the Witwatersrand ) and said ...
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... 't , I hope to show why they did not , and how their later entry into the subculture worked to transform and reconceive both style and ideology . One The roots of a subculture : the 1950s and 17 A different fight for freedom.
... 't , I hope to show why they did not , and how their later entry into the subculture worked to transform and reconceive both style and ideology . One The roots of a subculture : the 1950s and 17 A different fight for freedom.
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... Later , the scene shifted back to Joubert Park , to the Astor on Smit Street , and then , in the late 1950s , the lounge - bar at The Waldorf Hotel , on the corner of Rissik and Bree , took over . ' Joe ' , who moved from Durban to ...
... Later , the scene shifted back to Joubert Park , to the Astor on Smit Street , and then , in the late 1950s , the lounge - bar at The Waldorf Hotel , on the corner of Rissik and Bree , took over . ' Joe ' , who moved from Durban to ...
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... Later , once they were publicised by Drum and Golden City Post , they became splashy affairs at places like the Kismet Theatre in Athlone . ( See Chetty's ' A drag at Madame Costello's ' , in this volume . ) Within the coloured ...
... Later , once they were publicised by Drum and Golden City Post , they became splashy affairs at places like the Kismet Theatre in Athlone . ( See Chetty's ' A drag at Madame Costello's ' , in this volume . ) Within the coloured ...
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... later in other parts of the country . Even Johan- nesburg women like Ellie and Jackie , who had little interaction with any gay men , white or coloured , remember the infiltration of words like ' nora ' and ' dora ' and ' hilda ' into ...
... later in other parts of the country . Even Johan- nesburg women like Ellie and Jackie , who had little interaction with any gay men , white or coloured , remember the infiltration of words like ' nora ' and ' dora ' and ' hilda ' into ...
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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