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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... lovers of ' straight ' men , or injongas , who collude in the masquerade that their sexual partners are ' women . ' The mechanics of this charade make for sometimes startling reading . The piece details an intricate taxonomy of ...
... lovers of ' straight ' men , or injongas , who collude in the masquerade that their sexual partners are ' women . ' The mechanics of this charade make for sometimes startling reading . The piece details an intricate taxonomy of ...
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... lover and became involved in a tight - knit circle of lesbians . ' Ellie ' , her lover of 16 years , 19 A different fight for freedom.
... lover and became involved in a tight - knit circle of lesbians . ' Ellie ' , her lover of 16 years , 19 A different fight for freedom.
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... lover of 16 years , is a physical education teacher who ' picked up ' her first lover in 1955 while working in a record store : the pick - up was an art - student who introduced Ellie to a ' bohemian artsy ' world in which there were ...
... lover of 16 years , is a physical education teacher who ' picked up ' her first lover in 1955 while working in a record store : the pick - up was an art - student who introduced Ellie to a ' bohemian artsy ' world in which there were ...
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... lover , for over a year , who ' does not know that I am a woman . ' Such a scenario seems unlikely , and it can be assumed that , even if there was no black lesbian subculture in which Gertie participated , there was at the very least a ...
... lover , for over a year , who ' does not know that I am a woman . ' Such a scenario seems unlikely , and it can be assumed that , even if there was no black lesbian subculture in which Gertie participated , there was at the very least a ...
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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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