Edwin Cameron

When Edwin Cameron announced to a stunned local and international media that he - one of South Africa's most prominent citizens - was himself living with the virus cutting swathes through the population of the continent, the impact was immediate. In this memoir, he grapples with the meaning of HIV/AIDS: for him as he confronts the possibility of his own lingering death, and for all of us in facing up to one of the most desperate challenges of our time. Cameron blends elements of his destitute childhood with his daily duties as a judge and human rights lawyer, while focusing on the epidemic's central issues: stigma, unjust discrimination, and, most vitally, the life-and-death question of access to treatment. 2005.

Witness to AIDS

Mark Gevisser

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.

Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa

Defiant Desire

In deze bundel zijn de volgende artikelen opgenomen over lesbische vrouwen in Zuid-Afrika: A different fight for freedom : a history of South African lesbian and gay organisation from the 1950s to the 1990s /Mark Gevisser ; "Unapprehended felons" : gays and lesbians and the law in South Africa / Edwin Cameron ; Lesbian gangster / Dhianaraj Chetty , Moffies en manvroue : gay and lesbian life histories in comtemporary cape Town ; Five women : black lesbian life on the Reef / Tanya Chan Sam ; Climbing on her shoulders : an interview with Umtata's 'first lesbian' ; Wearing the pants : Butch/femme roleplaying in lesbian relationships / Julia Beffon ; The Arista sisters, september 1984 : a personal account of army drag / Matthew Krouse ; From Ada to Zelda : notes on gays and language in South Africa / Gerrit Olivier ; Exit : gay publishing in South Africa / Gerry Davidson en Ron Nerio ; A thousand forms of love : representations of homosexuality in South African literature / Shaun de Waal ; The lavender lobby : working for lesbian and gay rights within the liberation movement / Derrick Fine en Julia Nicol ; Pride of protest : drag queens, comrades, and the Lesbian and Gay Pride March / Mark Gevisser en Graeme Reid ; 'White rapists made coloureds (and homosexuals)' : the Winnie Mandela Trial and the politics of race and sexuality / Rachel holmes ; 'Lesbians in love and compromising situations' : lesbian feminist organising in the Western Cape / Mary Armour and Sheila Lapinsky ; Of gay rights and the pitfalls of the 'PC' : a polemic / Digby Ricci.

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