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. |
From inside the book
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Page 9
... apartheid . Both Simon Nkoli and Ivan Toms worked to integrate their gay identities with their anti - apartheid activism . Theirs are classic prison stories , but with a difference : for both Nkoli and Toms , physical imprisonment ...
... apartheid . Both Simon Nkoli and Ivan Toms worked to integrate their gay identities with their anti - apartheid activism . Theirs are classic prison stories , but with a difference : for both Nkoli and Toms , physical imprisonment ...
Page 10
... apartheid movement . The success of this strategy is charted in ' The lavender lobby ' , in which Fine and Nicol describe the way the Organisation of Lesbian and Gay Activists ( OLGA ) lobbied the African National Congress to include a ...
... apartheid movement . The success of this strategy is charted in ' The lavender lobby ' , in which Fine and Nicol describe the way the Organisation of Lesbian and Gay Activists ( OLGA ) lobbied the African National Congress to include a ...
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... apartheid South Africa , where identities were so rigidly defined , why is a ' gay identity ' so elusive and undefinable ? Given the specificity of class , race and ethnicity in South Africa , is it even possible to pin down a ' gay ...
... apartheid South Africa , where identities were so rigidly defined , why is a ' gay identity ' so elusive and undefinable ? Given the specificity of class , race and ethnicity in South Africa , is it even possible to pin down a ' gay ...
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... apartheid history , the influx of white people into the towns was paralleled by the system of black migrant labour : the single - sex compounds , where men were divorced from home communities , cre- ated ' breeding grounds ' for ...
... apartheid history , the influx of white people into the towns was paralleled by the system of black migrant labour : the single - sex compounds , where men were divorced from home communities , cre- ated ' breeding grounds ' for ...
Page 19
... apartheid struggle ( the famous 1956 march of 20 000 women on Pretoria's Union Buildings being a case in point ) . In the 1950s and 1960s , it certainly did not address itself to issues of sexuality ; neither did it situate itself ...
... apartheid struggle ( the famous 1956 march of 20 000 women on Pretoria's Union Buildings being a case in point ) . In the 1950s and 1960s , it certainly did not address itself to issues of sexuality ; neither did it situate itself ...
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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