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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... Trial and the politics of race and sexuality ... 284 Rachel Holmes ' LESBIANS IN LOVE AND COMPROMISING SITUATIONS ' : Lesbian feminist organising in the Western Cape ........... Mary Armour and Sheila Lapinsky 295 LIVING WITH LOSS IN ...
... Trial and the politics of race and sexuality ... 284 Rachel Holmes ' LESBIANS IN LOVE AND COMPROMISING SITUATIONS ' : Lesbian feminist organising in the Western Cape ........... Mary Armour and Sheila Lapinsky 295 LIVING WITH LOSS IN ...
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... Trial . His account of the way almost every sangoma in Sebokeng township tried to ' cure ' him provides yet another in- sight into the workings of homosexual identity within urban township life . The graphic description of his coming ...
... Trial . His account of the way almost every sangoma in Sebokeng township tried to ' cure ' him provides yet another in- sight into the workings of homosexual identity within urban township life . The graphic description of his coming ...
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... trial . Mandela claimed that she had ordered four youths to be ' removed ' from a Methodist manse to protect them from sexual abuse by the minister , Paul Verryn . Holmes unpicks the homophobia in this defence : the fact that ...
... trial . Mandela claimed that she had ordered four youths to be ' removed ' from a Methodist manse to protect them from sexual abuse by the minister , Paul Verryn . Holmes unpicks the homophobia in this defence : the fact that ...
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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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