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1 online resource (xiii, 376 pages) : illustrations |
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Etymological note: On "moffies" -- Defiant Desire / Mark Gevisser and Edwin Cameron -- A Different Fight for Freedom: A history of South African lesbian and gay organisation from the 1950s to the 1990s / Mark Gevisser -- 'Unapprehended Felons': Gays and lesbians and the law in South Africa / Edwin Cameron -- Keeping Sodom Out of the Laager: State repression of homosexuality in apartheid South Africa / Glen Retief -- A Drag at Madame Costello's: Cape moffie life and the popular press in the 1950s and 1960s / Dhianaraj Chetty -- Lesbian Gangster: The Gertie Williams story: Excerpted from Golden City Post and Drum magazine / Dhianaraj Chetty -- Johannesburg's 'Health Clubs': Places of erotic langour or prison-houses of desire? / Peter Galli and Luis Rafael -- 'Moffies En Manvroue': Gay and lesbian life histories in contemporary Cape Town / Jack Lewis and Francois Loots -- Abangibhamayo Bathi Ngimnandi. (Those who fuck me say I'm tasty): Gay sexuality in Reef townships / Hugh McLean and Linda Ngcobo -- Five Women: Black lesbian life on the Reef / Tanya Chan Sam -- Climbing on Her Shoulders: An interview with Umtata's 'first lesbian': Vera Vimbela / Mike Olivier -- Going Underground: A visit to gay Welkom / Neil Miller -- Wearing the Pants: Butch/femme roleplaying in lesbian relationships / Julia Beffon -- The Arista Sisters, September 1984: A personal account of army drag / Matthew Krouse -- From Ada to Zelda: Notes on gays and language in South Africa / Gerrit Olivier -- Exit: Gay publishing in South Africa / Gerry Davidson and Ron Nerio -- A Thousand Forms of Love: Representations of homosexuality in South African Literature / Shaun de Waal -- Wardrobes: Coming out as a black gay activist in South Africa / Simon Nkoli -- Ivan Toms is a Fairy?: The South African Defence Force, the End Conscription Campaign, and me / Ivan Toms -- Identity Crossfire: On being a black gay student activist / Hein Kleinbooi -- The Lavender Lobby: Working for lesbian and gay rights within the liberation movement / Derrick Fine and Julia Nicol -- Pride or Protest?: Drag queens, comrades, and the Lesbian and Gay Pride March / Mark Gevisser and Graeme Reid -- 'White Rapists Made Coloureds (And Homosexuals)': The Winnie Mandela Trial and the politics of race and sexuality / Rachel Holmes -- 'Lesbians in Love and Compromising Situations': Lesbian feminist organising in the Western Cape / Mary Armour and Sheila Lapinsky -- Living with Loss in the Best Way We Know How: AIDS and gay men in Cape Town / John V. Pegge -- Of Gay Rights and the Pitfalls of the 'PC': A Polemic / Digby Ricci -- Promise You'll Tell No-One: A memoir / Koos Prinsloo -- My Childhood as an Adult Molester: A Salt River moffie / Zackie Achmat -- 'Pretended Families': On being a gay parent / Neville John -- In Memory of Rocky: An obituary / Anne Mayne |
| Summary |
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 t |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
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Print version record |
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Gay people -- South Africa -- Identity
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Lesbians -- South Africa -- Identity
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Gay people -- South Africa -- Social conditions
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Lesbians -- South Africa -- Social conditions
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Gay rights -- South Africa
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Gay rights
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Gays -- Identity
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Gays -- Social conditions
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Lesbians -- Identity
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Lesbians -- Social conditions
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Homosexualität
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Aufsatzsammlung
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South Africa
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Südafrika
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Südafrika (Staat)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gevisser, Mark
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Cameron, Edwin
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| ISBN |
9781136655951 |
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1136655956 |
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1299867332 |
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9781299867338 |
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