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 23
... clubs came and went , the most well - known being The Farmhouse , out of town on the road to Pretoria . Also in the 1960s , a gay man named Leo Smith opened a club in his mother's flat in Rissik Street . While the bars remained straight ...
... clubs came and went , the most well - known being The Farmhouse , out of town on the road to Pretoria . Also in the 1960s , a gay man named Leo Smith opened a club in his mother's flat in Rissik Street . While the bars remained straight ...
Page 25
... clubs and café - bios : The cruising scene A significant part of gay life in the 1950s and early 1960s perhaps even ... clubs ' and the café - bios . In Johannesburg , there were two ' health clubs ' : the London and the Atwa- ter , both ...
... clubs and café - bios : The cruising scene A significant part of gay life in the 1950s and early 1960s perhaps even ... clubs ' and the café - bios . In Johannesburg , there were two ' health clubs ' : the London and the Atwa- ter , both ...
Page 26
... clubs - they use words like ' filthy ' , ' rat - infested ' and ' sleazy dump ' . But , for five pounds , one could spend the night in the baths , parading the corridors , or in private cubicles with beds . Because of their ' health - club ...
... clubs - they use words like ' filthy ' , ' rat - infested ' and ' sleazy dump ' . But , for five pounds , one could spend the night in the baths , parading the corridors , or in private cubicles with beds . Because of their ' health - club ...
Page 27
... clubs , like the District Six Net- ball Team which participated in the women's league , frequently ( and not surprisingly ) sweeping up all the awards . These netball teams , like the drag - per- formers , have been a constant in ...
... clubs , like the District Six Net- ball Team which participated in the women's league , frequently ( and not surprisingly ) sweeping up all the awards . These netball teams , like the drag - per- formers , have been a constant in ...
Page 29
... clubs in Johannesburg largely fre- quented by white working - class lesbians : Chick Venter's establishment , described above , and another club , Spiders ' Web in Jeppe Street , which ran for a while in the early 1960s . - If there was ...
... clubs in Johannesburg largely fre- quented by white working - class lesbians : Chick Venter's establishment , described above , and another club , Spiders ' Web in Jeppe Street , which ran for a while in the early 1960s . - If there was ...
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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