Websites
http://www.dreamwater.com/women/theresles/
The
Renaissance Lesbian: A multicultural world for lesbian/lesbian-friendly
women
http://www.home.intekom.com/icontact/PMBNetwork/Index.html
Website of the Gay and Lesbian Organisation of Pietermaritzburg,
KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.
http://www.equality.org.za
Homepage of the South African Lesbian and Gay Equality
Project, formerly the National Coalition.
http://www.mambaonline.com
New South African gay site with news, gallery, clubs,
organisations.
http://www.geocities.com/kencage/saps.htm
South
African Police Services hints on safer cruising for
gay men
http://www.gaylesbiantimes.com
World news briefs, compiled by Rex Wockner.
www.wits.ac.za/gala
gala@library.wits.ac.za
Website from the Gay and Lesbian Archives of South Africa
(GALA).
www.geocities.com/gaylibrary2000
Website from the Gay and Lesbian Library in Johannesburg.
www.togs.co.za
Website from Transvaal Organisation of Gay Sports (South
Africa).
www.idol.co.za
Website from Idol Production (Cape Town), listing gay
and lesbian videoproductions.
www.oia.co.za
SA' annual Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Out of Africa's
website.
www.gaypages.co.za
Website by SA Gay Pages.
www.kelma.org
Le
site des beurs gays. French language site ofr the Moroccan,
Algerian and Tunesian communities in France
www.q.co.za
Website on gay and lesbian affairs run by the Mail and
Guardian weekly.
www.africaserver.nl/links/gender/magazine1_uk.htm
Amsterdam based website on Africa with a gay and lesbian
section.
www.hivos.nl
Hivos
www.niza.nl
NiZA
www.itfd.org.za
Interfund
www.iglhrc.org
Website from the International Gay and Lesbian Human
Rights Commission.
www.ilga.org
Website from the International Lesbian and Gay Association
www.OutRage.org.uk
Website by UK-based actiongroup OutRage.
http://www.geocities.com/gayuganda
Still work in progress but already interesting on glbt
in Uganda
http://www.gayegypt.com
Includes a gay guide to Africa's largest city, Cairo.
www.sapride.org
Everything you want to know about SA Pride 2001!
Books
on homosexuality in Africa
SEXUALITY
AND EROTICISM AMONGST MALES IN MUSLIM SOCIETIES
New
York: Haworth Press, 1992. Includes studies of male
homosexuality in Morocco, Syria, Iran, Turkey and Israel.
Edited by Arno Schmitt and Jehoeda Sofer.
AFRICA DANCES
This pink travelogue by Geoffrey Gorer on 'West African
Negroes' was published in the fifties by Faber and Faber
in UK. Copies available in some libraries and at the
Gay and Lesbian Archives in Johannesburg.
ALIENS IN THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD
Collection of articles on homosexuality and religion.
Edited by Paul Germond and Steve de Gruchy. Published
by David Philip Publishers, Cape Town, in 1997. ISBN
0-86486-330-6.
ANTI-GAY HATE CRIMES, NEED FOR POLICE INVOLVEMENT TO
CURB VIOLENCE COMMITTED AGAINST GAYS
Aubrey Theron's and Christiaan Bezuidenhout's study
published by the Centre for the Study of Violence and
Reconciliation (CSVR) in Johannesburg. Seminar no. 2
paper, 1995.
BLANKET
BOY'S MOON
Written
by Peter Lanham, and based on an original story by A.S.
Mopeli-Paulus, a descendant of Moeshoeshoe, this novel
is a fine piece of writing on several controversial
themes. A bestseller in the 1950s, it was at that time
a Book Society Recommendation. Published by David Philip,
1984,
ISBN 0 86485 016 1
BOY-WIVES
AND FEMALE HUSBANDS
Partly anthropological collection of recent and historical
articles on homosexuality in Kenya, Zanzibar, East African
Coast, Senegal, Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola, Namibia,
Zimbabwe, Lesotho and South Africa. Brief summaries
of some of the chapters to be found in the Africa By
Country section of Behind The Mask.
Edited by Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe. Published
by St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York. ISBN
0-312-21216-X, $ 29,95, 1998. For summaries of some
of the chapters: see Africa By Country section. REVIEW
French
Language Article: Homosexualite
en Afrique
COMING OUT: GAYS AND LESBIANS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Collection of portraits by Lutz van Dijk, amonst them
is Cecil Nyathi, former co-chairperson of the Gays and
Lesbians of the Witwatersrand (GLOW). Published in 1998.
DEFIANT DESIRE
Collection of stories on the history of homosexuality
and gay/lesbian organisation in South Africa. Edited
by Mark Gevisser and Edwin Cameron. Published by Ravan
Press. ISBN 0869754351.
DIFFERENT
RAINBOWS
Same-Sex
Sexualities and Popular Movements in the Third World
Essays
edited by Peter Drucker. SA journalist Mark Gevisser
on 'Mandela's stepchildren: homosexual identity in post-apartheid
South Africa' and John Mburu on 'Awakenings: dreams
and delusions on an incipient lesbian and gay movement
in Kenya', amongst others. Gay Press, April 2000. ISBN:
1 9022852 10 9.
ETHNIC
AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY AMONG LESBIANS AND GAY MEN
Edited
by Beverly Greene, 1997. Cheryl Potgieter contributes
about 'black South African Lesbians in the Ninetien'
in From Apartheid to Mandela's Constitition.
EXTRA
ORDINARY PEOPLE
Impressions
of the Gay Games, 1998. Booklet focusing on the participants
from the developing countries. Published by XminusY
Solidarity Fund, Amsterdam. Written and edited by isela
Dutting. E-mail: xminy@xminy.nl
FROM
HERE TO DISTRICT SIX
A
South African memoir with new poetry, prose and other
writing by Norman G. Kester. Foreword by Tseko Simon
Nkoli (1957 - 1998). Published by District Six Press,
Toronto Cananda, March 2000. ISBN: 0-9686342-0-6.
GREATEST
TABOO: HOMOSEXUALITY IN BLACK COMMUNITIES, THE
Essays
edited by Delroy Constantine-Simms. Vasu Reddy on 'Institutionalizing
Sexuality: Theorizing Queer in Post-Apartheid South
Africa' and Gloria Wekker 'Mati-ism and Black Lesbianism:
Two Idealtypical Expressions of Female Homosexuality
in Black Communities of the Diaspora', amongst others.
Alyson Books, Los Angeles/New York, January 2001. ISBN
1-55583-564-3.
HOMOSEXUALITY
IN DAKAR: IS THE BED THE HEART OF SEXUAL SUBCULTURE?
Article
by Niels Teunis in the Journal of Gay, Lesbiand and
Bisexual Identity, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1996.
HOMOSEXUALITY
IN SOUTH AFRICA
Much about homosexuality, little about South Africa
in this book written by Gordon Isaacs and Brian McKendrick.
Published by Oxford University Press. ISBN 019570715.
INVISIBLE
GHETTO: LESBIAN AND GAY WRITING FROM SOUTH AFRICA, THE
Edited by Matthew Krouse with the assistence of Kim
Berman. Published by Cosaw Publishing in 1993. ISBN
187487910 9.
LES RELATIONS HOMOSEXUELLES EN ALGERIE ET EN TUNISIE
Suivi
de poemes d'amour homosexual arabes, par le Dr. Numa
Practorius, traduit et presente par Patrick Cardon.
Cahiers Gai Kitsch Camp, no.27
LIFE
OF A SOUTH AFRICAN TRIBE, THE
Missionary reflection on homosexuality by Henri A. Junod
from the Swiss Roman Mission. Published by MacMilland
and Co in 1927. Available at some libraries. For instance:
William Cullin Library at the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg.
OM
GAY TE WEES. STRAF OF SEEN? ANTWOORDE OP ALLEDAAGSE
VRAE VAN GAYS IN SOUTH AFRICA
Written by dr. Jean du Plessis. Published by Tafelberg
Uitgewers in 1990. ISBN 0 620150912.
OUT OF THE WORLD, GAY AND LESBIAN LIFE FROM BUENOS AIRES
TO BANGKOK
Written by American gay journalist Neil Miller. Reportorial
stories on Cape Town, Johannesburg and Welkom. Published
by Penguin Books in 1992. ISBN 13579108642.
PERSPEKTIEWE OP HOMOSEKSUALITEIT
Written by Joubert, Conradie, Louw and Hurst. Published
by Uitgewery Boschendal in 1980. ISBN 0 907983 02 2
Q TRAVEL GUIDE TO QUEER SOUTH AFRICA
Edited by Martin Nel. Published by Pride and Janssen
Publishers, 1999.
Lists over 600 businesses, guest houses, organisations,
bars and clubs, restaurants and services countrywide.
146 pages, R 49,95.
QUEER
NATIONS: MARGINAL SEXUALITIES IN THE MAGHREB
Essays
on sexualities in Maghreb countries in northern Africa,
Algeria, Tunesia, Morocco. By Jarrod Haves. Order via
amazon.com
SEXUAL
INVERSION AMONG THE AZANDE
Article
published in Studies in Homosexuality, Vol. II - Ethographic
Studies of Homosexuality (1992).
THIRD PINK BOOK: MALE HOMOSEXUALITY IN WEST AFRICA,
THE
Article
on West Africa by Gerben Potman and Huub Ruijgrok, published
in 1993.
Academical
articles
SEXUAL
MINORITIES
A special by New Internationalist magazine, issue 328,
October 2000 on sexual minorities. Anissa Helie examines
current attitudes to sexual non-conformity in many Muslim
societies. Shuaib Rahim reports from the country that
has taken a world lead in getting legal equality for
sexual minorities. And much more. http://www.oneworld.org/ni/issue328/contents.htm
SCRIPTURE
AND HOMOSEXUALITY
Find a comprehensive list of positive and negative discussions
regarding homosexuality and the Christian Scriptures
under http://php.iupui.edu/~jtownsle/gay/gaybib.html.
As of August 2000, there are 105 exegetical and theological
articles (and a few books) listed here, mostly from
scholastic journals.
APOSTLES
OF THE CIVILIZED VICE, 'IMMORAL PRACTICES' AND 'UNNATURAL
VICE' IN SOUTH AFRICAN PRISONS AND COMPOUNDS 1890 -
1920.
Zackie Ahmat tackles Charles van Onselen in Social Dynamics
(19.2, 1993).
DEVELOPMENT UPDATE
VOL.2, No.2
All
articles: http://www.interfund.org.za/ARCHIVE.HTM#vol2no2
A
quarterly journal by the South African NGO Coalition
and Interfund; special issue on sexuality and sexual
rights in Southern Africa, Volume 2, nr. 4.
'WHEYTING BE DAT?' THE TREATMENT OF HOMOSEXUALITY IN
AFRICAN LITERATURE Expose by Chris Dunton.
L'HOMOPHILIE DANS LE ROMAN NEGRO-AFRICAN D"EXPRESSION
ANGLAISE ET FRANCAISE
Published in Peuples Noirs, Peuples Africains 33 (May-June
1983)
SEXUALITY AND SPACE
This
article is based on 15 months of empirical research
by Teresa Dirsuweit, including interviews, in
the Johannesburg Female Prison and parts of it
are included in a longer unpublished paper, ‘Carceral
spaces in South Africa: case study of Johannesburg
Female Prison.’ The first part if the article
summarises post-structural definitions of space
and identity. ...MORE
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'SAHWIRA'
BEING GAY AND LESBIAN IN ZIMBABWE: A REVIEW OF THE GALZ
ANTHOLOGY WHICH CONFRONTS MYTHS AND MISREPRESENTATIONS
ON HOMOSEXUALITY
Expose by Drew Shaw, University of Cape Town.
ZIMBABWEAN
LAW: THE PRODUCTION OF A WHITE MAN'S DISEASE
By Oliver Phillips, Institute of Criminology, University
of Cambridge
AN
INVESTIGATION INTO THE FORM AND FUNCTION USED BY GAY
MEN IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Dissertation by Ken Cage, November 1999. Also online:
http://www.geocities.com/gaylanguage/
HEART
OF LAVENDER: IN SEARCH OF GAY AFRICA
By Eugene J. Patron, published in Harvard Gay and Lesbian
Review, Fall 1995. Also online: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/patron-africhomo.html
UNCOVERING
HOMOSEXUALITY IN COLONIAL SOUTH AFRICA: THE CASE OF
BISHOP TWELLS
Article by Nichoal Southey in the South African Historical
Journal, 36 (1997).
HOMOSEXUALITY,
THE AFRICAN CHURCH AND CULTURE
Article by Osman Njuguna, APS Bulletin, No. 14, 8 April
1996. All African Press Service, Kenya.
DOGS ON WHEELS AND MORE MAINSTREAM
MEMORABILIA: THE GAY AND LESBIAN ARCHIVES OF SOUTH
AFRICA
The
only one of its kind in Africa, the Gay and Lesbian
Archives of South Africa (GALA) is an independent
project of the South African History Archives
(SAHA). SAHA was formed in 1988 by anti-apartheid
organisations and trade unions to collect the
documents, posters, photographs, T-shirts and
other material that told the story of the struggle
against apartheid. During the apartheid years,
SAHA’s ...MORE
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Documentaries,
Videos
FORBIDDEN
FRUIT
First
lesbian docu drama from Zimbabwe by Sue Maluwa Bruce,
2000. More information at www.filmwerkstatt.de
DARK
'N LOVELY, SOFT 'N FREE
Documentary
on South African hairdressers in the rural areas, 2000.
Produced by the Gay and Lesbian Archives of South Africa
(GALA). Directed by Paolo Alberton and Graeme Reid.
Introducing Zackie Radebe. For
more info see gallery.
UKAAMA
: CHURCHES IN SOLIDARITY
A 34 minute production portraying the Gays and Lesbians
Zimbabwe, in the possesion the Gay and Lesbian Archives
of South Africa (GALA).
WOUBI
CHERIE Production on gay-life in Ivory Coast.
More information will follow.
Review: http://www.newsreel.org/films/woubi.htm
THE
MAN WHO DROVE WITH MANDELA
Review
by Rishika (Inside Out Film)
http://www.insideout.co.uk/films/m/man_who_drove_with
_mandela.shtml
DAKAN
Guinea/France
co-production, directed by Dr. Mohammed Camara. 90 minutes.
1997. Review. (Put in review here - document: dakan
- and add: Review Mail and Guardian, South Africa: http://www.sn.apc.org/wmail/issues/981023/ARTS41.html
JOZIE,
A QUEER TOUR OF JOHANNESBURG
A 30 minute documentary on Johannesburgs' first queer
tour, directed by Paolo Alberton. With the After Nines
crew, Paul Mokgethi, Graeme Reid, Mark Gevisser and
Mindwalk, touroperators. September 1999.
APOSTLES OF A CIVILISED VICE, SANDO TO SAMANTHA: AKA
THE ART OF DIKVEL, GAY LIFE IS BEST, BEAT IT!
Documentaries by Idol Productions (Cape Town). For more
information: www.idol.co.za
A
NORMAL DAUGHTER - THE LIFE AND TIMES OF KEWPIE OF DISTRICT
SIX, GRANNY LEE AND SIMON NKOLI
Idol Productions will present A Normal Daughter soon.
Underdog
Entertainment is presently researching it's production
on legendary Granny Lee. Director Luiz deBarros is requesting
that anyone who may have photographs, video or film
footage of Granny Lee contacts him. He is also searching
for any (amateur or professional) photographs or film
and video footage of Johannesburg's gay clubs from the
late sixties throught the eighties, including Mandy's,
Skyline, Connections, Heaven, Champions, Zanzibar and
the Dungeon.Finally, Beverley Ditsie and Nickie Newman
have produced a pilot on a documentary on the late South
African gay leader Simon Nkoli.
Audio
THE BROKEN LINK
Five parts series on Springbok Radio (South Africa)
from 21/07/68 - 25/08/68. Two programs dealt specifically
with lesbian issues. Produced by Brian Chilvers. Originals
available at the SABC Sound Archives.
Statements
South
Africa Durban Gay/Lesbian centre on homophobic statements
mayor 17/04/01
STATEMENT
BY THE DURBAN LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY AND HEALTH CENTRE
RESPONSE
TO MAYOR OBED MLABA’S APOLOGY
17
APRIL 2001
After
Durban unicity mayor Mr Obed Mlaba was reported to have
made certain homophobic comments at the opening of the
Durban Investment Promotion Agency, we, the Durban Lesbian
and Gay Community and Health Centre, issued a demand
for a retraction of his comments, an unconditional apology
to the citizens of Durban and a commitment to making
Durban as gay and lesbian friendly as any other city
in South Africa.
Wisely,
with little delay, the mayor made his apology. We accept
it. We believe he was sincere. Whether he is personally
accepting of gays and lesbians is another matter. We
cannot force that on him. At least in his official capacity
he is unlikely to make such comments again. Accordingly
we do not call for his removal from office as others
have. By all accounts he is a good mayor and many of
our community voted for him and the ANC. We hope that
the mayor will learn from this that he cannot trample
on the rights of the gay and lesbian community.
We
feel obliged to record, however, that we are particularly
perturbed by the mayor’s apparent constant use of the
derogatory term "moffie". We call on him to stop this
forthwith.
The
comments made by the mayor seem to have originally arisen
over issues of tourism and the potential for tapping
the so-called pink rand. There is a widespread and incorrect
public perception that gays and lesbians are white,
middle class and wealthy and thus potentially valuable
tourists. This image represents only a tiny minority
of a much larger community. Perhaps the mayor is unaware
that that vast majority of gays and lesbians in Durban
are among the poorest, and most marginalised and disadvantaged
of the population. Gay and lesbian clubs might visibly
exist in the centre of town. But in every township in
Durban there are informal gay and lesbian groupings.
Because of public intolerance we can seldom dare to
be out. We contribute nothing to the so-called "pink
rand". We are not primarily concerned with issues of
tourism. We are concerned with day to day survival,
how to get a job, an education, access to health, etc,
without being discriminated against because of our sexual
orientation. The Constitution offers us real hope for
dignity and equality. Issues of tourism aside, we shall
also fight for our rights to equality, dignity and freedom.
The
mayor’s debacle has raised many other problems that
will not easily go away. And that is the official treatment
that the gay and lesbian community of Durban have received
by the unicity and its predecessors. On 21 April the
Centre will be officially launched. No less a national
figure than Judge Edwin Cameron, judge of the Supreme
Court of Appeal, will be the guest speaker. The mayor
was invited but declined to attend nominating his deputy
in his place. There are a number of issues that we would
like to have discussed with the mayor. Perhaps he will
now meet with us.
Despite
years of attempted negotiations with the Durban North
Central local council, we were constantly fobbed off.
We attempted to negotiate with the council the recognition
of gay and lesbian council employees, particularly the
recognition of same-sex partnerships with regard to
employee benefits. We would now like to know whether
the unicity will recognise such unions. Will it extend
medical aid and pension benefits to same-sex couples
to the same extent that it provides them to married
couples?
Other
issues that we would like to discuss with the mayor
are: Why are libraries so poorly stocked with gay and
lesbian books? Are same-sex couples prioritised for
council housing to the same extent that married couples
are? Is the unicity prepared to do anything about gay
and lesbian youths, largely from the former black townships,
who are thrown out of their homes because of their sexual
orientation? Will the metro police take seriously our
complaints when awe are harassed and assaulted because
of our sexual orientation? Will the unicity health department
actively work with us in fighting the HIV/AIDS epidemic
among the gay and lesbian community? What positive steps
will the unicity take, as it is required to do so in
terms of the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of
Discrimination Act 4 of 2000, to promote gay and lesbian
equality in Durban?
These
are among the issues that we would like to discuss with
the mayor. We formally request that he meet with us
to do so.
At
this stage we have no reason to place the mayor in the
same category as President Mugabe of Zimbabwe and President
Nujoma of Namibia, who has recently called for the arrest,
detention and deportation of gays and lesbians in Namibia.
The mayor’s swift reaction to our demand for an apology
suggests he is prepared to support gay and lesbian rights
to equality. We continue, however, to demand a retraction
and apology from Pres Nujoma. Will the mayor support
us in this demand?
For further information, contact Nonhlanhla Mkhize (Community
Centre Manager) at 031-301-2145 (t), 031-301-2147 (f)
or E-mail: gaycentre@saol.com.
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