Defiant Desire : Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa

ISBN-13: 9780415910613 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 374 str.

Mark Gevisser; Edwin Cameron

Opis

Defiant Desire records the lives of lesbian and gay South Africans of all races, lived in the face of censure, denial and oppression, 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; and from Afrikaans love poetry to the new activism. Defiant Desire brings together South Africa's most prominent gay and lesbian writers, activists and academics. The contributors set out to refute beliefs that homosexuality is a white, male or middle-class phenomenon. Their writing makes clear and vibrant the relationship between a growing lesbian and gay rights movement and the broader anti-apartheid struggle in a time of transition and upheaval South Africa, and challenges its people to build a new society that respects and cherishes all of its citizens. Defiant Desire is an articulate testimony to the range of gay and lesbian experiences in South Africa. It is both a document of lesbian and gay struggle, and an indispensable book for those interested in the sexual politics coursing beneath the country's troubled passage to democracy.

Recenzje

"With moving first-person accounts and fine attention to historical detail, these essays show us a South Africa the world could never have known." -- San Francisco Examiner
"...Defiant Desire needs to be read." -- VLS
"Defiant Desire...is scrupoulous in representing the great range of voices that lay claim to gay and lesbian identity in South Africa, without pretending to be exhaustive or forgetting the enormous gender, race, and class differences between and amoung self-identified gays and lesbians." -- VLS
"Vividly capturing the diversity of lesbian and gay culture, Defiant Desire blends provocative testimony and nuanced analysis to raise important questions about race, sexuality, and gender ambiguity in South Africa." -- Anne McClintock, Columbia University

Spis treści

1. Etymological note: On moffies; Part One - Overviews: 2. DEFIANT DESIRE Mark Gevisser and Edwin Cameron; 3. A DIFFERENT FIGHT FOR FREEDOM: A history of South African lesbian and gay organisation from the 1950s to the 1990s Mark Gevisser; Part Two - Where we stand: Moffies and the laager: 4. 'UNAPPREHENDED FELONS': Gays and Lesbians and the law in South Africa Edwin Cameron; 5. KEEPING SODOM OUT OF THE LAAGER: State repression of homosexuality in apartheid South Africa Glen Retief; Part Three - Making space: Queer societies: 6. A DRAG AT MADAME COSTELLO'S: Cape moffie life and the popular press in the 1950s and 1960s Dhianaraj Chetty; 7. LESBIAN GANGSTER: The Gertie Williams Story Excerpted from Golden City Post and Drum magazine by Dhianaraj Chetty; 8. JOHANNESBURG'S 'HEALTH CLUBS': Places of erotic langour or prison-houses of desire? Peter Galli and Luis Rafael; 9. 'MOFFIES EN MANVROUE': Gay and lesbian life histories in contemporary Cape Town Jack Lewis and Francois Loots; 10. ABANGIBHAMAYO BATHI NGIMNANDI: (Those who fuck me say I'm tasty): Gay sexuality in Reef townships Hugh McLean and Linda Ngcobo; 11. FIVE WOMEN: Black lesbian life on the Reef As told to Tanya Chan Sam; 12. CLIMBING ON HER SHOULDERS: An interview with Umtata's 'first lesbian' Vera Vimbela with Mike Oliver; 13. GOING UNDERGROUND: A visit to gay Welkom Neil Miller ; 14. WEARING THE PANTS: Butch/femme roleplaying in lesbian relationships Julia Beffon; Part Four - Making noise: Queer cultural forms: 15. THE ARISTA SISTERS, SEPTEMBER 1984: A personal account of army drag Matthew Krouse; 16. FROM ADA TO ZELDA: Notes on gays and language in South Africa Gerrit Oliver; 17. EXIT: Gay publishing in South Africa Gerry Davidson and Ron Nerio; 18. A THOUSAND FORMS OF LOVE: Representations of homosexuality in South African Literature Shaun de Waal; Part Five - Making waves: Lesbian and gay activism: 19. COMING OUT AS A BLACK GAY ACTIVIST IN SOUTH AFRICA Simon Nkoli; 20. IVAN TOMS IS A FAIRY?: The South African Defence Force, the End Conscription Campaign, and me Ivan Toms; 21. IDENTITY CROSSFIRE: On being a black gay student activist Hein Kleinbooi; 22. THE LAVENDER LOBBY: Working for lesbian and gay rights within the liberation movement Derrick Fine and Julia Nicol; 23. PRIDE OR PROTEST?: Drag queens, comrades, and the Lesbian and Gay Pride March Mark Gevisser and Graeme Reid; 24. 'WHITE RAPIST MADE COLOUREDS (AND HOMOSEXUALS)': The Winnie Mandela Trial and the politics of race and sexuality Rachel Holmes; 25. 'LESBIANS IN LOVE AND COMPROMISING SITUATIONS': Lesbian feminist organising in the Western Cape Mary Armour and Sheila Lapinsky; 26. LIVING WITH LOSS IN THE BEST WAY WE KNOW HOW: AIDS and gay men in Cape Town John V. Pegge; 27. OF GAY RIGHTS AND THE PITFALLS OF THE 'PC': A Polemic Digby Ricci; Part Six - Testaments: 28. PROMISE YOU'LL TELL NO-ONE: A memoir Koos Prinsloo; 29. MY CHILDHOOD AS AN ADULT MOLESTER: A Salt River moffie Zackie Achmat; 30. 'PRETENDED FAMILIES': On being a gay parent Neville John; 31. IN MEMORY OF ROCKY: An obituary Anne Mayne.

O autorze

Edwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser