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 ix
... , and the process will be public ; one in which all South Africa's political parties and ideologies will compete . Foreword The gay equality clause slipped quietly into the interim ix DEFIANT DESIRE Foreword to the International Edition.
... , and the process will be public ; one in which all South Africa's political parties and ideologies will compete . Foreword The gay equality clause slipped quietly into the interim ix DEFIANT DESIRE Foreword to the International Edition.
Page x
... parties , ANC Western Cape leader Allan Boesak himself a minister of the church defended the rights of gay people to equality . Also during the campaign , spokesperson Baleka Kgositsile , now a leader of the women's caucus in parliament ...
... parties , ANC Western Cape leader Allan Boesak himself a minister of the church defended the rights of gay people to equality . Also during the campaign , spokesperson Baleka Kgositsile , now a leader of the women's caucus in parliament ...
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... Party and the Democratic Party ) outlawed discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation , and this is reflected in the present draft Constitu- tion . And yet the status of gay and lesbian issues in the broader movement for ...
... Party and the Democratic Party ) outlawed discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation , and this is reflected in the present draft Constitu- tion . And yet the status of gay and lesbian issues in the broader movement for ...
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... parties of the 1950s through the law reform movement of 1968 to the gay upsurge in the 1980s and the current wave of more radicalised lesbian and gay activism , Gevisser creates a context for the rest of the book . He also synthesises ...
... parties of the 1950s through the law reform movement of 1968 to the gay upsurge in the 1980s and the current wave of more radicalised lesbian and gay activism , Gevisser creates a context for the rest of the book . He also synthesises ...
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... parties in flats . In Johannesburg , cliques developed around certain party - givers , one of whom was Hannah , outspokenly open and well into her 30s by the mid- 1950s . Hannah lived in Reynard Hall , a building almost exclusively ...
... parties in flats . In Johannesburg , cliques developed around certain party - givers , one of whom was Hannah , outspokenly open and well into her 30s by the mid- 1950s . Hannah lived in Reynard Hall , a building almost exclusively ...
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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