Defiant Desire: Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa

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Edwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser
Routledge, Sep 13, 2013 - Political Science - 374 pages
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.
 

Contents

Moffies and the Laager
87
Queer Societies
113
Queer Cultural Forms
207
Lesbian and Gay Activism
247
Six Testaments
317

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