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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... gay and lesbian lives in South Africa / edited by Mark Gevisser and Edwin Cameron . P. cm . Includes bibliographica ; references and index . ISBN 0-415-91060-9 ISBN 0-415-91061-7 1. Gays - South Africa - Identity 2. Lesbians - South ...
... gay and lesbian lives in South Africa / edited by Mark Gevisser and Edwin Cameron . P. cm . Includes bibliographica ; references and index . ISBN 0-415-91060-9 ISBN 0-415-91061-7 1. Gays - South Africa - Identity 2. Lesbians - South ...
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Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa Edwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser. Contents Foreword to the International Edition ..... Acknowledgements ......... Etymological note : On " moffies " One Overviews DEFIANT DESIRE ....... Mark Gevisser and ...
Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa Edwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser. Contents Foreword to the International Edition ..... Acknowledgements ......... Etymological note : On " moffies " One Overviews DEFIANT DESIRE ....... Mark Gevisser and ...
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... gay student activist Hein Kleinbooi THE LAVENDER LOBBY : 258 264 Working for lesbian and gay rights within the liberation movement .... 269 Derrick Fine and Julia Nicol PRIDE OR PROTEST ?: Drag queens , comrades , and the Lesbian and ...
... gay student activist Hein Kleinbooi THE LAVENDER LOBBY : 258 264 Working for lesbian and gay rights within the liberation movement .... 269 Derrick Fine and Julia Nicol PRIDE OR PROTEST ?: Drag queens , comrades , and the Lesbian and ...
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Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa Edwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser. Foreword to the International Edition This book was published in South Africa in March 1994 , shortly before the country went to the polls in its first democratic ...
Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa Edwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser. Foreword to the International Edition This book was published in South Africa in March 1994 , shortly before the country went to the polls in its first democratic ...
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Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa Edwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser. DEFIANT DESIRE : An Introduction Mark Gevisser and Edwin Cameron Seizing the moment Defiant Desire is a celebration of the lives of gay men and lesbians in South Africa ...
Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa Edwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser. DEFIANT DESIRE : An Introduction Mark Gevisser and Edwin Cameron Seizing the moment Defiant Desire is a celebration of the lives of gay men and lesbians in South Africa ...
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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