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 8
... woman from the Transkei who is organising gays and lesbians in Umtata , signals the diffi- culties of being black , gay , and rural . While Chan Sam and Olivier record the lives of black lesbians , Beffon's ' Wearing the Pants ' looks ...
... woman from the Transkei who is organising gays and lesbians in Umtata , signals the diffi- culties of being black , gay , and rural . While Chan Sam and Olivier record the lives of black lesbians , Beffon's ' Wearing the Pants ' looks ...
Page 20
... woman called Chick Venter ran a club near Park Station in Johan- nesburg . ' It was downstairs in a basement , ' recalls Ellie , ' and very rough . The walls were covered with fishnets with bottles hanging off them . That was the style ...
... woman called Chick Venter ran a club near Park Station in Johan- nesburg . ' It was downstairs in a basement , ' recalls Ellie , ' and very rough . The walls were covered with fishnets with bottles hanging off them . That was the style ...
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... woman active in Durban in those years , remembers that the only way you could meet someone was through cricket — there was no other place ... We knew that those girls ' played cricket , so we joined too ... The girls used to play at ...
... woman active in Durban in those years , remembers that the only way you could meet someone was through cricket — there was no other place ... We knew that those girls ' played cricket , so we joined too ... The girls used to play at ...
Page 29
... woman . ' Such a scenario seems unlikely , and it can be assumed that , even if there was no black lesbian subculture in which Gertie participated , there was at the very least a group of ' heterosexual ' women who were quite prepared ...
... woman . ' Such a scenario seems unlikely , and it can be assumed that , even if there was no black lesbian subculture in which Gertie participated , there was at the very least a group of ' heterosexual ' women who were quite prepared ...
Page 40
... woman ? ' Of course , the style then was very kappies - en - rokkies - it was like having a bunch of Afrikaner huisvroue on stage ! Now things have become more professional and sophisticated . That the Dungeon has only been raided once ...
... woman ? ' Of course , the style then was very kappies - en - rokkies - it was like having a bunch of Afrikaner huisvroue on stage ! Now things have become more professional and sophisticated . That the Dungeon has only been raided once ...
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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