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 iv
... Social conditions . 4. Leabians - South Africa - Social conditions . 5. Gay rights - South Africa . I. Gevisser , Mark . II . Cameron , Edwin , 1953- HQ76.3.S5D43 1994 305.9'0664'0968 - dc20 94-22150 CIP British Library Cataloguing - in ...
... Social conditions . 4. Leabians - South Africa - Social conditions . 5. Gay rights - South Africa . I. Gevisser , Mark . II . Cameron , Edwin , 1953- HQ76.3.S5D43 1994 305.9'0664'0968 - dc20 94-22150 CIP British Library Cataloguing - in ...
Page ix
... social discrimination . And , more impor- tantly , the constitution is interim , valid only until the next elections in 1999. It is up to the current legislature to draft a final constitution , and the process will be public ; one in ...
... social discrimination . And , more impor- tantly , the constitution is interim , valid only until the next elections in 1999. It is up to the current legislature to draft a final constitution , and the process will be public ; one in ...
Page xiii
... social responses . Recently , however , it has been reappropri- ated by homosexuals and transvestites in referring to themselves , losing some of its negative connotations . This is partly due to an ironic , camp tradition containing ...
... social responses . Recently , however , it has been reappropri- ated by homosexuals and transvestites in referring to themselves , losing some of its negative connotations . This is partly due to an ironic , camp tradition containing ...
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... social cost of this percep- tion , both in how we are represented and in how we are seen , has been enormous . If Defiant Desire has one aim , it is to expand or at the very least re - examine this narrow definition of ' gay identity ...
... social cost of this percep- tion , both in how we are represented and in how we are seen , has been enormous . If Defiant Desire has one aim , it is to expand or at the very least re - examine this narrow definition of ' gay identity ...
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... social transformation . Charting the de- velopment of a lesbian and gay identity in South Africa means examining the way these ideas have interacted with each other : how they have clashed , and what their potential may ultimately be to ...
... social transformation . Charting the de- velopment of a lesbian and gay identity in South Africa means examining the way these ideas have interacted with each other : how they have clashed , and what their potential may ultimately be to ...
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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