Queer visibilities
Subtitle: space, identity, and interaction in Cape Town
By: Andrew Tucker.
Series: RGS-IBG book series
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781405183031; 9781405183024
Subjects: Gay men -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Social conditions; Sexual orientation -- South Africa -- Cape Town; Sex discrimination -- South Africa -- Cape Town; Gay men -- Identity; Cape Town (South Africa) -- Social conditions
Description: "Queer Visibilities explores the gap between liberal South African law and the more dangerous reality for groups of queer men living in Cape Town. By examining the lives of queer men among the three major 'race' groups in Cape Town - whites, coloureds and black Africans - this new study shows how changes in South African law remain marginal to vast numbers of the city's queers."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Queer visibilities in Cape Town; title: Legacies and visibilities among white queer men; title: Coloured visibilities and the raced nature of heteronormative space; title: How to be a queer Xhosa man in the Cape Town townships; title: Social invisibilities; title: Political invisibilities (and visibilities); title: The costs of invisibility.