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 20
... young people mixing with me . Because they were living at home and couldn't let their hair down , they used my place as a gathering point . As we say in gangster - talk , it was a ' safe- house ' . In those days , the women recall , the ...
... young people mixing with me . Because they were living at home and couldn't let their hair down , they used my place as a gathering point . As we say in gangster - talk , it was a ' safe- house ' . In those days , the women recall , the ...
Page 23
... young man in 1958 , remembers that everybody would go to the Grand , and you'd even find a sailor or two there if he had a feel for that kind of thing . But then , when the Grand closed at 7.15 , the more adventurous bunch would move on ...
... young man in 1958 , remembers that everybody would go to the Grand , and you'd even find a sailor or two there if he had a feel for that kind of thing . But then , when the Grand closed at 7.15 , the more adventurous bunch would move on ...
Page 31
... young Afrikaners , often fresh in from the platteland , and most of their clients were wealthier English - speakers . If this is true , an interesting connection could be made with black homophobia in the 1980s and 1990s : the ...
... young Afrikaners , often fresh in from the platteland , and most of their clients were wealthier English - speakers . If this is true , an interesting connection could be made with black homophobia in the 1980s and 1990s : the ...
Page 36
... young turks with a sense of ownership of the move- ment ready to take over . Essentially , the small group of professionals who motivated Law Reform were not interested in much more than maintaining the status quo : they did not ...
... young turks with a sense of ownership of the move- ment ready to take over . Essentially , the small group of professionals who motivated Law Reform were not interested in much more than maintaining the status quo : they did not ...
Page 38
... young white people were able to leave the confines of family and become part of an urban gay subculture . This had important consequences for the demography of gay society : for the first time , significant numbers of Afrikaans men and ...
... young white people were able to leave the confines of family and become part of an urban gay subculture . This had important consequences for the demography of gay society : for the first time , significant numbers of Afrikaans men and ...
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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