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 xiii
... male homosexual ' , ' effeminate male ' and ' transvestite ' . In its most wide- spread usage , it refers to the first category , but its more specific meaning of ' transvestite ' is also found in the Cape coloured community . A number ...
... male homosexual ' , ' effeminate male ' and ' transvestite ' . In its most wide- spread usage , it refers to the first category , but its more specific meaning of ' transvestite ' is also found in the Cape coloured community . A number ...
Page 9
... male homosexual desire . De Waal tracks a theme of transgression , running from ID Du Plessis through William Plomer ( who flags his homosexuality only through innuendo ) , Damon Galgut , Stephen Gray and , finally , Koos Prinsloo . De ...
... male homosexual desire . De Waal tracks a theme of transgression , running from ID Du Plessis through William Plomer ( who flags his homosexuality only through innuendo ) , Damon Galgut , Stephen Gray and , finally , Koos Prinsloo . De ...
Page 17
... male and middle - class , this account reflects , to a large extent , white , male and middle - class experience . Rather than claiming that women and black men belonged to a subculture when they patently didn't , I hope to show why ...
... male and middle - class , this account reflects , to a large extent , white , male and middle - class experience . Rather than claiming that women and black men belonged to a subculture when they patently didn't , I hope to show why ...
Page 18
... male , and generally middle - class . But , in South Africa's apartheid history , the influx of white people into the towns was paralleled by the system of black migrant labour : the single - sex compounds , where men were divorced from ...
... male , and generally middle - class . But , in South Africa's apartheid history , the influx of white people into the towns was paralleled by the system of black migrant labour : the single - sex compounds , where men were divorced from ...
Page 19
... male's entry into the gay subculture is often via the bar or the cruising ground.5 In North America and Europe , lesbian bars and subcultures did exist in the 1950s - most notably in Greenwich Village in New York , but also in smaller ...
... male's entry into the gay subculture is often via the bar or the cruising ground.5 In North America and Europe , lesbian bars and subcultures did exist in the 1950s - most notably in Greenwich Village in New York , but also in smaller ...
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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