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 9
... societies ' and assertion of ' queer 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 ...
... societies ' and assertion of ' queer 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 ...
Page 10
... society . Toms describes how he found common ground with the cause of black South Afri- cans through his own experience of oppression as a gay man . But Kleinbooi takes issue with any suggestion that the two can be equated : " To say ...
... society . Toms describes how he found common ground with the cause of black South Afri- cans through his own experience of oppression as a gay man . But Kleinbooi takes issue with any suggestion that the two can be equated : " To say ...
Page 12
... society - she as a white lesbian , he as a coloured gay man . Mayne's tribute is a fitting close to the book , perhaps just as Gevisser's account of Linda Ngcobo's funeral is a fitting opening . The time of our community's greatest ...
... society - she as a white lesbian , he as a coloured gay man . Mayne's tribute is a fitting close to the book , perhaps just as Gevisser's account of Linda Ngcobo's funeral is a fitting opening . The time of our community's greatest ...
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... society understands the extent to which we are embedded within it and thus imbued with its own quirks and pathologies , its own range of values and attitudes . And until lesbian and gay communities themselves accept the sometimes ...
... society understands the extent to which we are embedded within it and thus imbued with its own quirks and pathologies , its own range of values and attitudes . And until lesbian and gay communities themselves accept the sometimes ...
Page 18
... society and likely to corrupt and bring about degradation to innocent and unsuspecting , decent - living young men and so spell ruin to their future ... ' 2 Between these two stereotypes , however , homosexual subcultures existed . in ...
... society and likely to corrupt and bring about degradation to innocent and unsuspecting , decent - living young men and so spell ruin to their future ... ' 2 Between these two stereotypes , however , homosexual subcultures existed . in ...
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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