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 22
... toilets and re - emerge in jeans and a casual shirt for the club . In those days , none of the bars were owned by people from within the gay commu- nity : the gay ' crowd ' would decide upon a venue — usually the lounge - bar of a swank ...
... toilets and re - emerge in jeans and a casual shirt for the club . In those days , none of the bars were owned by people from within the gay commu- nity : the gay ' crowd ' would decide upon a venue — usually the lounge - bar of a swank ...
Page 25
... toilets - the most famous of which in Johannesburg was the vast City Hall ' cottage ' there were indoor locations that , as loci of sexual commerce , became very important gay meet- ing places : the ' health clubs ' and the café - bios ...
... toilets - the most famous of which in Johannesburg was the vast City Hall ' cottage ' there were indoor locations that , as loci of sexual commerce , became very important gay meet- ing places : the ' health clubs ' and the café - bios ...
Page 37
... toilets were closed early , popular cruising venues were more rigorously pa- trolled and subjected to perpetual sweeps . The effect was to move the subculture indoors , into bars and clubs which , contrary to the expectations of Law ...
... toilets were closed early , popular cruising venues were more rigorously pa- trolled and subjected to perpetual sweeps . The effect was to move the subculture indoors , into bars and clubs which , contrary to the expectations of Law ...
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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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