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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... societies A DRAG AT MADAME COSTELLO'S : Cape moffie life and the popular press in the 1950s and 1960s ...... 115 Dhianaraj Chetty LESBIAN GANGSTER : The Gertie Williams story .... 128 Excerpted from Golden City Post and Drum magazine by ...
... societies A DRAG AT MADAME COSTELLO'S : Cape moffie life and the popular press in the 1950s and 1960s ...... 115 Dhianaraj Chetty LESBIAN GANGSTER : The Gertie Williams story .... 128 Excerpted from Golden City Post and Drum magazine by ...
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... society in South Africa an unprecedented vitality ; a robustness that is markedly different from the marginal and subterranean lives many of us have lived . This even in the face of a growing AIDS epidemic that is having an ever ...
... society in South Africa an unprecedented vitality ; a robustness that is markedly different from the marginal and subterranean lives many of us have lived . This even in the face of a growing AIDS epidemic that is having an ever ...
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... societies ' . Given the homophobic society in which they have had to develop , these ' queer societies ' are necessarily ' outsider ' subcultures . They are de- fined by masquerade , resistance , subterfuge and sublimation . We see ...
... societies ' . Given the homophobic society in which they have had to develop , these ' queer societies ' are necessarily ' outsider ' subcultures . They are de- fined by masquerade , resistance , subterfuge and sublimation . We see ...
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... societies ' , even while marginalised and derided , are very much part of the larger communities in which they operate ... society ' examined in the book . This is appropriate . These communities , by nature fluid , hybrid and permeable ...
... societies ' , even while marginalised and derided , are very much part of the larger communities in which they operate ... society ' examined in the book . This is appropriate . These communities , by nature fluid , hybrid and permeable ...
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... societies ' that gays establish for themselves within the SADF . In a similar vein to drag , another popular expression of ' queer society ' is South Africa's highly developed form of gay slang . Gerrit Olivier's ' From Ada to Zelda ...
... societies ' that gays establish for themselves within the SADF . In a similar vein to drag , another popular expression of ' queer society ' is South Africa's highly developed form of gay slang . Gerrit Olivier's ' From Ada to Zelda ...
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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