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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Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa Edwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser. Etymological note : On ' moffie In South African slang , the word ' moffie ' covers a range of interrelated senses , including ' male homosexual ' , ' effeminate male ...
Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa Edwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser. Etymological note : On ' moffie In South African slang , the word ' moffie ' covers a range of interrelated senses , including ' male homosexual ' , ' effeminate male ...
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Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa Edwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser. black youths from the townships, white mineworkers, lesbian sangomas, rich white 'entertainers' from the suburbs, coloured moffie drag queens ... South Africa. The majority.
Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa Edwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser. black youths from the townships, white mineworkers, lesbian sangomas, rich white 'entertainers' from the suburbs, coloured moffie drag queens ... South Africa. The majority.
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Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa Edwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser. DEFIANT DESIRE : An Introduction Mark Gevisser and Edwin Cameron Seizing the moment Defiant Desire is a celebration of the lives of gay men and lesbians in South Africa ...
Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa Edwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser. DEFIANT DESIRE : An Introduction Mark Gevisser and Edwin Cameron Seizing the moment Defiant Desire is a celebration of the lives of gay men and lesbians in South Africa ...
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... South African ' gay identity ' ? This in turn leads to the hardest question ... Africa's growing lesbian and gay movement itself , attempts to weave these ... South Africa's transition to democracy . For three years now , since the ...
... South African ' gay identity ' ? This in turn leads to the hardest question ... Africa's growing lesbian and gay movement itself , attempts to weave these ... South Africa's transition to democracy . For three years now , since the ...
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... African civilization is untrue . The essays of Gevisser and Holmes cast light on why and how this notion came about . Homosexual experience in South Africa is unique , precisely because of our history of division and resistance . Our ...
... African civilization is untrue . The essays of Gevisser and Holmes cast light on why and how this notion came about . Homosexual experience in South Africa is unique , precisely because of our history of division and resistance . Our ...
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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