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 3
... moffie drag queens , cross - racial working - class couples , political prisoners and sex workers . Much of this work is path - breaking , particularly that which details for the first time the extent to which homosexuality exists and ...
... moffie drag queens , cross - racial working - class couples , political prisoners and sex workers . Much of this work is path - breaking , particularly that which details for the first time the extent to which homosexuality exists and ...
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... , as elsewhere , there is a personal politics to self - descrip- tion . We all call ourselves something different : gay , moffie , lesbian , dyke , queer . טי 5 What for one is a submission to language stereotyping is Introduction.
... , as elsewhere , there is a personal politics to self - descrip- tion . We all call ourselves something different : gay , moffie , lesbian , dyke , queer . טי 5 What for one is a submission to language stereotyping is Introduction.
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... moffie drag queens from the 1950s and 1960s and McLean and Ngcobo's township youths of the pre- sent day wilfully and often playfully subvert their preordained gender and sex roles . We see subterfuge in the way Johannesburg's ' Health ...
... moffie drag queens from the 1950s and 1960s and McLean and Ngcobo's township youths of the pre- sent day wilfully and often playfully subvert their preordained gender and sex roles . We see subterfuge in the way Johannesburg's ' Health ...
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... moffie drag balls of the 1950s and 1960s . His work demonstrates that homosexuality and drag are an indivisible part of the history and culture of the Western Cape's coloured communities . ' A drag at Madame Costello's ' was written as ...
... moffie drag balls of the 1950s and 1960s . His work demonstrates that homosexuality and drag are an indivisible part of the history and culture of the Western Cape's coloured communities . ' A drag at Madame Costello's ' was written as ...
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... Moffie Drag ' subculture in and around Cape Town , printing sensational ' exposés ' of coloured drag queens and competitions , a 1956 police swoop of the Esplanade , Durban's pre - eminent cruising place , resulted in the arrest of 30 ...
... Moffie Drag ' subculture in and around Cape Town , printing sensational ' exposés ' of coloured drag queens and competitions , a 1956 police swoop of the Esplanade , Durban's pre - eminent cruising place , resulted in the arrest of 30 ...
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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