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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... culture ? What parallel cultures have existed , and how have they organised themselves ? And how has the increasingly vocal presence of blacks and women transformed both the style and ideology of a South African ' gay identity ' ? This ...
... culture ? What parallel cultures have existed , and how have they organised themselves ? And how has the increasingly vocal presence of blacks and women transformed both the style and ideology of a South African ' gay identity ' ? This ...
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... culture . But homosexuality is an integral part of other black South African cultures too . In ' Abangibhamayo bathi ngimnandi ' , McLean and Ngcobo unearth the extent to which homosexual codes are embedded in contemporary township culture ...
... culture . But homosexuality is an integral part of other black South African cultures too . In ' Abangibhamayo bathi ngimnandi ' , McLean and Ngcobo unearth the extent to which homosexual codes are embedded in contemporary township culture ...
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... cultural forms arising out of queer societies are used both to define the values and codes of these societies and to confront heterosexuals with their exist- ence . In " The Arista Sisters ' , Krouse recounts how he and a group of other ...
... cultural forms arising out of queer societies are used both to define the values and codes of these societies and to confront heterosexuals with their exist- ence . In " The Arista Sisters ' , Krouse recounts how he and a group of other ...
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... culture ' - is always a precursor to the establishment of a lesbian and gay liberation movement . In South Africa , as elsewhere , there has been something of a progression from bar culture , to social support organisations , to ...
... culture ' - is always a precursor to the establishment of a lesbian and gay liberation movement . In South Africa , as elsewhere , there has been something of a progression from bar culture , to social support organisations , to ...
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... culture ? When I — a white man called myself ' gay ' and Linda Ngcobo - a black man — called himself ' gay ' , did we mean the same things ? When I call myself ' gay ' , do I mean the same things as middle - aged white men and women who ...
... culture ? When I — a white man called myself ' gay ' and Linda Ngcobo - a black man — called himself ' gay ' , did we mean the same things ? When I call myself ' gay ' , do I mean the same things as middle - aged white men and women who ...
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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