ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|85 pages
Overviews
part Two|25 pages
Where we stand: Maffies and the laager
part Three|93 pages
Making Space: Queer Societies
part Four|39 pages
Making noise: Queer cultural forms
part Five|69 pages
Making waves: Lesbian and gay activism
part Six|36 pages
Testaments