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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... endeavor , more than ever , to fold their concerns into this country's growing culture of human rights . Single - issue gay politics have never worked here . Whatever the political and legal consequences of Section 8 , X.
... endeavor , more than ever , to fold their concerns into this country's growing culture of human rights . Single - issue gay politics have never worked here . Whatever the political and legal consequences of Section 8 , X.
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... never before . In bloody township battles , in tortuous constitutional negotiations , in campaigns leading up to a first democratic election , in unprecedentedly open media , South Africa's forty million citizens are staking claim to ...
... never before . In bloody township battles , in tortuous constitutional negotiations , in campaigns leading up to a first democratic election , in unprecedentedly open media , South Africa's forty million citizens are staking claim to ...
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... never actually mention that you were queer , which is the word we used those days . Everyone knew the score , but it was very hush - hush . At the same time , Ellie and Jackie were members of a women's hockey team . The hockey league ...
... never actually mention that you were queer , which is the word we used those days . Everyone knew the score , but it was very hush - hush . At the same time , Ellie and Jackie were members of a women's hockey team . The hockey league ...
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... 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 private suburban home . The ...
... 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 private suburban home . The ...
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... never bothered . While white gay men gathered around Sea Point , coloured gay men became very much part of the texture of District Six , particularly along its main road , Hanover Street , where many gay men rented rooms and socialised ...
... never bothered . While white gay men gathered around Sea Point , coloured gay men became very much part of the texture of District Six , particularly along its main road , Hanover Street , where many gay men rented rooms and socialised ...
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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