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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... struggles of those experiencing oppression in various ways as blacks , as women , as gays and lesbians have in ... struggle for justice and true liberation in this country must include a commitment to lesbian and gay equality . And ...
... struggles of those experiencing oppression in various ways as blacks , as women , as gays and lesbians have in ... struggle for justice and true liberation in this country must include a commitment to lesbian and gay equality . And ...
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... struggle . And our identities have been deformed by a system that classified us into those with freedom and those without . Apartheid legislated who we were , what work we could do , where we could live , who we could associate with ...
... struggle . And our identities have been deformed by a system that classified us into those with freedom and those without . Apartheid legislated who we were , what work we could do , where we could live , who we could associate with ...
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... struggle . The section begins with two personal accounts , both by gay men , one black , one white , who were jailed for political reasons during the last years of formal apartheid . Both Simon Nkoli and Ivan Toms worked to integrate ...
... struggle . The section begins with two personal accounts , both by gay men , one black , one white , who were jailed for political reasons during the last years of formal apartheid . Both Simon Nkoli and Ivan Toms worked to integrate ...
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... struggle . Earlier in the week , at a memorial service organised by GLOW , a confron- tation had erupted between Ngcobo's friends and his father ; offered an opportunity to speak , the old man had railed against his son's gay friends ...
... struggle . Earlier in the week , at a memorial service organised by GLOW , a confron- tation had erupted between Ngcobo's friends and his father ; offered an opportunity to speak , the old man had railed against his son's gay friends ...
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... struggle ( the famous 1956 march of 20 000 women on Pretoria's Union Buildings being a case in point ) . In the 1950s and 1960s , it certainly did not address itself to issues of sexuality ; neither did it situate itself within feminist ...
... struggle ( the famous 1956 march of 20 000 women on Pretoria's Union Buildings being a case in point ) . In the 1950s and 1960s , it certainly did not address itself to issues of sexuality ; neither did it situate itself within feminist ...
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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