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 10
... gay people to come out within the liberation movement . In ' Identity crossfire ' , Kleinbooi too writes about the ... white gay men are alienated from the movement , and GLOW's own constituency of younger black men and women still feels ...
... gay people to come out within the liberation movement . In ' Identity crossfire ' , Kleinbooi too writes about the ... white gay men are alienated from the movement , and GLOW's own constituency of younger black men and women still feels ...
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... 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 potential power ...
... 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 potential power ...
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... gay organisation from the 1950s to 1990s Mark Gevisser Prologue : Linda Ngcobo's funeral There were hundreds of ... white ; in the charismatic African style of prayer , they chanted and swayed and thumped , moving up to heaven with the force ...
... gay organisation from the 1950s to 1990s Mark Gevisser Prologue : Linda Ngcobo's funeral There were hundreds of ... white ; in the charismatic African style of prayer , they chanted and swayed and thumped , moving up to heaven with the force ...
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... gay friends , damning their sin . The GLOW members were furious , and ... homosexuality , and , he apologised , he had been moved to speak by the heat of the ... white - clad con- gregation , reminding the congregation , even as the ...
... gay friends , damning their sin . The GLOW members were furious , and ... homosexuality , and , he apologised , he had been moved to speak by the heat of the ... white - clad con- gregation , reminding the congregation , even as the ...
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... gay movement Ngcobo himself had helped found and entrench . Ngcobo was one of the first black men to declare his ... white movement that had itself been germinating , slowly , in South African soil for over four decades . *** Linda Ngcobo's ...
... gay movement Ngcobo himself had helped found and entrench . Ngcobo was one of the first black men to declare his ... white movement that had itself been germinating , slowly , in South African soil for over four decades . *** Linda Ngcobo's ...
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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