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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... Night ' : we'd meet at someone's home for supper , a few drinks , and a game of darts . " Cleo recalls too that women's soccer teams were also havens for lesbians , but for a ' rougher ' type . In Johannesburg , Hannah responded to an ...
... Night ' : we'd meet at someone's home for supper , a few drinks , and a game of darts . " Cleo recalls too that women's soccer teams were also havens for lesbians , but for a ' rougher ' type . In Johannesburg , Hannah responded to an ...
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... night . The fear of being rejected in their leisure - time , by the very society in which they strove for advancement during their work - time , dominated many gay men in those times as it still does today . In Durban , the same ...
... night . The fear of being rejected in their leisure - time , by the very society in which they strove for advancement during their work - time , dominated many gay men in those times as it still does today . In Durban , the same ...
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... night , so you'd shuttle between the two . [ The Playhouse ] ... had a very uneasy mixture of a third each queens , sailors and tarts . You'd be at a table with several queens and there'd be sailors at the next table . It could be ...
... night , so you'd shuttle between the two . [ The Playhouse ] ... had a very uneasy mixture of a third each queens , sailors and tarts . You'd be at a table with several queens and there'd be sailors at the next table . It could be ...
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... night . These were the days when a girl might be fired if she was so much as having an extra - marital affair . So you can imagine how beyond the pale a gay life was . Our lives were ruled by fear . Gareth concurs : We lived by stealth ...
... night . These were the days when a girl might be fired if she was so much as having an extra - marital affair . So you can imagine how beyond the pale a gay life was . Our lives were ruled by fear . Gareth concurs : We lived by stealth ...
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... night in the baths , parading the corridors , or in private cubicles with beds . Because of their ' health - club ' cover and their privacy , they were , according to Galli and Rafael , frequented by ' closettes ' , an ' older crowd ...
... night in the baths , parading the corridors , or in private cubicles with beds . Because of their ' health - club ' cover and their privacy , they were , according to Galli and Rafael , frequented by ' closettes ' , an ' older crowd ...
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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