Defiant Desire: Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa
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...
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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.
Foreword to the International EditionAcknowledgementsEtymological note: On "moffies"Defiant Desire3A Different Fight for Freedom: A history of South African lesbian and gay organisation from the 1950s to the 1990s14'Unapprehended Felons': Gays and lesbians and the law in South Africa89Keeping Sodom Out of the Laager: State repression of homosexuality in apartheid South Africa99A Drag at Madame Costello's: Cape moffie life and the popular press in the 1950s and 1960s115Lesbian Gangster: The Gertie Williams story: Excerpted from Golden City Post and Drum magazine128Johannesburg's 'Health Clubs': Places of erotic langour or prison-houses of desire?134'Moffies En Manvroue': Gay and lesbian life histories in contemporary Cape Town140Abangibhamayo Bathi Ngimnandi. (Those who fuck me say I'm tasty): Gay sexuality in Reef townships158Five Women: Black lesbian life on the Reef186Climbing on Her Shoulders: An interview with Umtata's 'first lesbian': Vera Vimbela193Going Underground: A visit to gay Welkom198Wearing the Pants: Butch/femme roleplaying in lesbian relationships202The Arista Sisters, September 1984: A personal account of army drag209From Ada to Zelda: Notes on gays and language in South Africa219Exit: Gay publishing in South Africa225A Thousand Forms of Love: Representations of homosexuality in South African Literature232Wardrobes: Coming out as a black gay activist in South Africa249Ivan Toms is a Fairy?: The South African Defence Force, the End Conscription Campaign, and me258Identity Crossfire: On being a black gay student activist264The Lavender Lobby: Working for lesbian and gay rights within the liberation movement269Pride or Protest?: Drag queens, comrades, and the Lesbian and Gay Pride March278'White Rapists Made Coloureds (And Homosexuals)': The Winnie Mandela Trial and the politics of race and sexuality284'Lesbians in Love and Compromising Situations': Lesbian feminist organising in the Western Cape295Living with Loss in the Best Way We Know How: AIDS and gay men in Cape Town301Of Gay Rights and the Pitfalls of the 'PC': A Polemic311Promise You'll Tell No-One: A memoir319My Childhood as an Adult Molester: A Salt River moffie325'Pretended Families': On being a gay parent342In Memory of Rocky: An obituary348Contributors354Subject Index358Index of Persons373
