ABSTRACT
Building on the previous discussions, this chapter elaborates the ways in which homophobia-related violence operates to classify queer inclusions and exclusions that bolster race, gender, sexuality and class hierarchies. Particular knowledges of homophobia-related violence produce a set of queer dominances that are manifest both locally and globally, as well as resistances to these. In delimiting ‘those who are like us’ and ‘those who are not’, violence does the work of race and class privileging within contemporary queer life. These are violent differentiations through which, in the context of post-colonial South Africa, some identities and social locations come to be valorised and others vanquished.
