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 12
... issue cuts to the heart of the difficult relationship between personal identity and political strategy . It is an issue we have had to confront in editing this book . Should we present an upright , but- toned - down image of gay life ...
... issue cuts to the heart of the difficult relationship between personal identity and political strategy . It is an issue we have had to confront in editing this book . Should we present an upright , but- toned - down image of gay life ...
Page 17
... issues the funeral itself raised : the interplay of sexual identity with the politics of race , class and gender ; the different relationships of middle - class white people and working - class black people to a homosexual subculture ...
... issues the funeral itself raised : the interplay of sexual identity with the politics of race , class and gender ; the different relationships of middle - class white people and working - class black people to a homosexual subculture ...
Page 19
... issues of sexuality ; neither did it situate itself within feminist ideology . With no feminist movement in South Africa and little bohemian subculture to speak of , lesbians thus found it even more difficult than gay men to find space ...
... issues of sexuality ; neither did it situate itself within feminist ideology . With no feminist movement in South Africa and little bohemian subculture to speak of , lesbians thus found it even more difficult than gay men to find space ...
Page 34
... issue : its aim was to prevent the proposed anti - gay bill from becoming law . As such , it was self - consciously and , in terms of its own goals , appropriately accommodationist in its approach . In fact , the explicit deci- sion was ...
... issue : its aim was to prevent the proposed anti - gay bill from becoming law . As such , it was self - consciously and , in terms of its own goals , appropriately accommodationist in its approach . In fact , the explicit deci- sion was ...
Page 36
... issue campaign aimed at blocking potential legislation rather than at building an enduring gay and lesbian community . Law Reform's lack of democratic process meant that , once the leadership burnt out , there were no eager young turks ...
... issue campaign aimed at blocking potential legislation rather than at building an enduring gay and lesbian community . Law Reform's lack of democratic process meant that , once the leadership burnt out , there were no eager young turks ...
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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