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 6
... looks at the relationship , in South African lesbian and gay subcultures , between confrontation and accommodation ; between political advocacy and social support ; between activism and acting out ; between ' apolitical ' conservatism ...
... looks at the relationship , in South African lesbian and gay subcultures , between confrontation and accommodation ; between political advocacy and social support ; between activism and acting out ; between ' apolitical ' conservatism ...
Page 7
... sexual partners are ' women . ' The mechanics of this charade make for sometimes startling reading . The piece details an intricate taxonomy of homosexual behaviour and sexual role - play , and looks 7 Introduction 'MOFFIES EN MANVROUE':
... sexual partners are ' women . ' The mechanics of this charade make for sometimes startling reading . The piece details an intricate taxonomy of homosexual behaviour and sexual role - play , and looks 7 Introduction 'MOFFIES EN MANVROUE':
Page 8
... looks at the way this imitates — and subverts the heterosexual paradigm . In a similar way , Chan Sam used the GLOW Lesbian ... look at the role that this newspaper has played in the politics and formation of a gay subculture . If drag ...
... looks at the way this imitates — and subverts the heterosexual paradigm . In a similar way , Chan Sam used the GLOW Lesbian ... look at the role that this newspaper has played in the politics and formation of a gay subculture . If drag ...
Page 10
... look at the tenuous relationship between gay politics . and the broader democratic movement . Armour and Lapinsky's ' Lesbians in love and compromising situations ' in its turn examines the equally tenuous relationship between lesbian ...
... look at the tenuous relationship between gay politics . and the broader democratic movement . Armour and Lapinsky's ' Lesbians in love and compromising situations ' in its turn examines the equally tenuous relationship between lesbian ...
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... look after us . So we had to earn a living . And for middle - class women in the 1950s that was unusual . There were very few professions open to us , and we could not afford to lose our jobs there was no hubby to go running back to ...
... look after us . So we had to earn a living . And for middle - class women in the 1950s that was unusual . There were very few professions open to us , and we could not afford to lose our jobs there was no hubby to go running back 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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