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
... Health Clubs ' , as described by Galli and Rafael , served as clandestine sexual meeting - places for closeted gay men in the 1950s and 1960s . We see sublimation in the way 6 DEFIANT DESIRE A DIFFERENT FIGHT FOR FREEDOM:
... Health Clubs ' , as described by Galli and Rafael , served as clandestine sexual meeting - places for closeted gay men in the 1950s and 1960s . We see sublimation in the way 6 DEFIANT DESIRE A DIFFERENT FIGHT FOR FREEDOM:
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... meeting places into the 1950s . ' Sporting Women ' : Lesbian subcultures in the 1950s and 1960s Lesbians , despite being entirely ignored by both the law and the media , experienced far greater pressure to remain closeted and had far ...
... meeting places into the 1950s . ' Sporting Women ' : Lesbian subcultures in the 1950s and 1960s Lesbians , despite being entirely ignored by both the law and the media , experienced far greater pressure to remain closeted and had far ...
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... meetings , Ellie met many other lesbian teachers too . It was a fiercely clandestine world . ' Jackie ' , a teacher who met Ellie at a swimming gala , remembers that you only came alive on the weekend . During the week you kept up all ...
... meetings , Ellie met many other lesbian teachers too . It was a fiercely clandestine world . ' Jackie ' , a teacher who met Ellie at a swimming gala , remembers that you only came alive on the weekend . During the week you kept up all ...
Page 26
... meeting place , but they have never been as central here as in Europe or the United States . In 1993 , there were only two such commercial ventures catering to gay men , both in Johannesburg . A third , in Cape Town , was run out of a ...
... meeting place , but they have never been as central here as in Europe or the United States . In 1993 , there were only two such commercial ventures catering to gay men , both in Johannesburg . A third , in Cape Town , was run out of a ...
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... meeting at the Park Royal Hotel in Joubert Park - the first gay public meeting ever held in South Africa . It was publicised by word of mouth and by very discreet pamphleteering in the bars . About 100 people attended . There was strict ...
... meeting at the Park Royal Hotel in Joubert Park - the first gay public meeting ever held in South Africa . It was publicised by word of mouth and by very discreet pamphleteering in the bars . About 100 people attended . There was strict ...
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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