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 9
... young artists like Stephen Cohen and Mallory de Cock . *** Gevisser notes in ' A different fight for freedom ' that claiming ' gay space ' - the making of ' queer societies ' and assertion of ' queer culture ' - is always a precursor to ...
... young artists like Stephen Cohen and Mallory de Cock . *** Gevisser notes in ' A different fight for freedom ' that claiming ' gay space ' - the making of ' queer societies ' and assertion of ' queer culture ' - is always a precursor to ...
Page 15
... young GLOW member in drag led the gay mourners through a modified version of ' We are a gentle , loving people ' . Here was a group of conservative church people , witnessing the spectacle of a man in women's clothing singing at the ...
... young GLOW member in drag led the gay mourners through a modified version of ' We are a gentle , loving people ' . Here was a group of conservative church people , witnessing the spectacle of a man in women's clothing singing at the ...
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... young men and women mourning him that day . Linda Ngcobo's funeral was as brazen and complex and contradictory , yet as inevitably affirming , as the black gay movement Ngcobo himself had helped found and entrench . Ngcobo was one of ...
... young men and women mourning him that day . Linda Ngcobo's funeral was as brazen and complex and contradictory , yet as inevitably affirming , as the black gay movement Ngcobo himself had helped found and entrench . Ngcobo was one of ...
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... young men and so spell ruin to their future ... ' 2 Between these two stereotypes , however , homosexual subcultures existed . in the major cities ( Johannesburg , Cape Town and Durban ) relatively unharassed - and had done so at least ...
... young men and so spell ruin to their future ... ' 2 Between these two stereotypes , however , homosexual subcultures existed . in the major cities ( Johannesburg , Cape Town and Durban ) relatively unharassed - and had done so at least ...
Page 19
... young people to live alone . Not surprisingly , gay men and lesbi- ans flocked there . Cruising areas also developed during the war because of their proximity to soldiers and sailors : Park Station adjacent to Joubert Park in Johannes ...
... young people to live alone . Not surprisingly , gay men and lesbi- ans flocked there . Cruising areas also developed during the war because of their proximity to soldiers and sailors : Park Station adjacent to Joubert Park in Johannes ...
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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