Queer Visibilities
Combining current theory and original fieldwork, Queer Visibilities explores the gap between liberal South African law and the reality for groups of queer men living in Cape Town.\ \ Explores the interface between queer sexuality, race, and urban space to show links between groups of queer men\ Focuses on three main 'population groups' in Cape Town—white, coloured, and black Africans\ Discusses how HIV remains a key issue for queer men in South Africa\ Utilizes new research data—the first...
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Queer Visibilities explores the gap between liberal South African law and the more dangerous reality for groups of queer men living in Cape Town. By examining the lives of queer men among the three major ‘race’ groups in Cape Town – whites, coloureds and black Africans – this illuminating new study shows how changes in South African law remain marginal to vast numbers of the city’s queers. The text also explores the inextricable links between the regulation and expression of queer sexualities and the histories of racial classification in the country. It argues that Western notions of ‘the closet’ fail to account for important distinctions between men who at times inhabit vastly different social worlds. Such distinctions, however, must be uncovered if the needs and wishes of diverse communities are to be understood. Queer Visibilities combines the most up-to-date theoretical arguments with extensive new field research to shed light on some important failures of the New South Africa – including the many hardships faced by black African queer men in the Cape Town townships and a ‘forgotten HIV epidemic’ caused by lingering homophobia and ignorance. This important new book contributes valuable insights into the study of human sexuality and reveals how sexual discrimination remains a challenge that must be overcome for the true spirit of reconciliation to be realised in South African society.
List of Figures and Tables1 Queer Visibilities in Cape Town 1Pt. I Visibilities 352 Legacies and Visibilities among White Queer Men 373 Coloured Visibilities and the Raced Nature of Heteronormative Space 674 How to be a Queer Xhosa Man in the Cape Town Townships 101Pt. II Interactions 1375 Social Invisibilities 1396 Political Invisibilities (and Visibilities) 1607 The Costs of Invisibility 187Notes 206Bibliography 220Index 241
\ From the Publisher"Queer Visibilities is a much-needed intervention in the geographies of sexualities. Drawing upon extensive ethnographic and archival work, it provides a theoretically sophisticated examination of the interconnected politics of class and race in the production of sexualised space within contemporary Cape Town."\ –Jon Binnie, Manchester Metropolitan University\ "How can we understand the closet if we do not understand our visibilities? Tucker has provided an impressive study driven by intellectual parley between geography, queer theory, postcolonial and development studies. This book adds to the already powerful queer geographies on a fascinating place as well as to debates around queer globalisations."\ –Michael Brown, University of Washington\ \ \
