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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... liberation movement .... 269 Derrick Fine and Julia Nicol PRIDE OR PROTEST ?: Drag queens , comrades , and the Lesbian and Gay Pride March ...... 278 Mark Gevisser and Graeme Reid ' WHITE RAPISTS MADE COLOUREDS ( AND HOMOSEXUALS ) ...
... liberation movement .... 269 Derrick Fine and Julia Nicol PRIDE OR PROTEST ?: Drag queens , comrades , and the Lesbian and Gay Pride March ...... 278 Mark Gevisser and Graeme Reid ' WHITE RAPISTS MADE COLOUREDS ( AND HOMOSEXUALS ) ...
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... movement itself , attempts to weave these people together with a thread of ... liberation movements in 1990 , our identities and aspirations have been ... liberation ' is a particularly loaded word . What role does sexual politics play in ...
... movement itself , attempts to weave these people together with a thread of ... liberation movements in 1990 , our identities and aspirations have been ... liberation ' is a particularly loaded word . What role does sexual politics play in ...
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... struggle . And our identities have been deformed by a system that classified us into those with freedom and those ... liberation movement the first ever in Africa . For all the above reasons , there is a moment that must be seized ...
... struggle . And our identities have been deformed by a system that classified us into those with freedom and those ... liberation movement the first ever in Africa . For all the above reasons , there is a moment that must be seized ...
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... liberation movement . In South Africa , as elsewhere , there has been something of a progression from bar culture ... liberation struggle . The section begins with two personal accounts , both by gay men , one black , one white , who ...
... liberation movement . In South Africa , as elsewhere , there has been something of a progression from bar culture ... liberation struggle . The section begins with two personal accounts , both by gay men , one black , one white , who ...
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... liberation movement . In ' Identity crossfire ' , Kleinbooi too writes about the difficulties of being gay in the liberation movement , and , conversely , about the difficulties of being black in the gay movement . He records his ...
... liberation movement . In ' Identity crossfire ' , Kleinbooi too writes about the difficulties of being gay in the liberation movement , and , conversely , about the difficulties of being black in the gay movement . He records his ...
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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