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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... lived . This even in the face of a growing AIDS epidemic that is having an ever- deepening impact on our society . One of our contributors , Linda Ngcobo , died before publication , and another , Koos Prinsloo , died shortly thereafter ...
... lived . This even in the face of a growing AIDS epidemic that is having an ever- deepening impact on our society . One of our contributors , Linda Ngcobo , died before publication , and another , Koos Prinsloo , died shortly thereafter ...
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... lived behind a facade of dominant stereotypes . ' Lesbian Gangster ' , originally published in Drum under a different name , gives us a vivid glimpse of lesbian cross - dressing . It also shows how some lesbi- ans , as outlaws , might ...
... lived behind a facade of dominant stereotypes . ' Lesbian Gangster ' , originally published in Drum under a different name , gives us a vivid glimpse of lesbian cross - dressing . It also shows how some lesbi- ans , as outlaws , might ...
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... lived with his family in their township home , and a choir- member in the charismatic African Apostolic Church of which his father is an elder and lay preacher . And so , on the day of his funeral , two communities gathered to bury ...
... lived with his family in their township home , and a choir- member in the charismatic African Apostolic Church of which his father is an elder and lay preacher . And so , on the day of his funeral , two communities gathered to bury ...
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... lived in Reynard Hall , a building almost exclusively occupied by lesbians and gay men and renamed ' Radclyffe Hall ' by Hannah's set . ' The Well of Loneliness was our Bible , ' says Ellie , and , in an attempt to emulate the lesbian ...
... lived in Reynard Hall , a building almost exclusively occupied by lesbians and gay men and renamed ' Radclyffe Hall ' by Hannah's set . ' The Well of Loneliness was our Bible , ' says Ellie , and , in an attempt to emulate the lesbian ...
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... lived by stealth . We'd look at the flamboyant queens who didn't give a damn , and while we might secretly envy them for their freedom , we thought they were silly , foolish things and a great danger to us . At all costs we had to ...
... lived by stealth . We'd look at the flamboyant queens who didn't give a damn , and while we might secretly envy them for their freedom , we thought they were silly , foolish things and a great danger to us . At all costs we had to ...
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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