...Gregory Mitchell In the run-up to the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics, the Brazilian government engaged in a militarized campaign to clean up favelas, blighted areas, and red-light districts so that it could “develop” them. Based on ethnographic work in Rio de Janeiro, London, and Cape Town...

... of postcolonial subjects in Cape Town and Hong Kong. In a moment of intensified counterterrorism, necropolitical nationalism, and resurgent yet covert forms of empire, both works have much to say about how the lives of sexual minorities are simultaneously affected by and resist Western imperialism. Thus they also...

..., were classified as “Coloured” under apartheid and lived in District Six, Cape Town, when it was declared “Whites Only” in 1966, after which approximately 60,000 residents were forcibly removed as the area was almost completely bulldozed. This collection of photographs has become somewhat embedded...

... Journal, and Prospects. Jack Lewis is an activist and fi lmmaker from Cape Town. He taught political econ- omy before founding Idol Pictures in 1993 and the Out in Africa South African Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in 1994. He has directed and produced numerous...

... Greyson, Jack Lewis, and Susan Newton-King Proteus (2003; 100 min., Canada and South Africa) is a low-budget feature fi lm, directed by John Greyson (Toronto) and Jack Lewis (Cape Town), that made the international rounds of “art cinema” and queer festivals in 2003 and 2004, with limited...

... by Tamale Sylvia , 199 – 216 . Cape Town : Pambazuka Press . Livermon Xavier . 2012 . “ Queer(y)ing Freedom: Black Queer Visibilities in Postapartheid South Africa .” GLQ 18 , no. 2–3 : 298 – 324 . Lugones Maria . 2007 . “ Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System...

... of this book. Lurie is a divorced white pro- fessor of romantic poetry who now teaches communications in Cape Town. His (racialized) relationships with women are immediately foregrounded, as the novel begins with the demise of a regular “arrangement” he has with a Muslim sex worker, Soraya. He then has...

...), University of Cape Town. She is also a postdoctoral research fellow on the GlobalGRACE project housed at the AGI and the Centre for Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (CTDPS), University of Cape Town, as well as the NGO SWEAT. She holds a doctorate in gender, media, and culture from Utrecht University...

... . Lewis Desiree . 2011 . “ Representing African Sexualities .” In African Sexualities: A Reader , edited by Tamale Sylvia , 199 – 216 . Cape Town : Pambazuka Press . Livermon Xavier . 2015 . “ Usable Traditions: Creating Sexual Autonomy in Post-apartheid South Africa .” Feminist...

... of Reason: Queer Visibilities: Space, Identity, and The Case of Postcolonial Trinidad and Interaction in Cape Town) 387–406 Tobago 481–505 Driskill, Qwo-Li, Chris Finley, Brian Joseph Wesling, Meg Gilley, and Scott...

..., Mpumalanga,” in Men Behaving Differently: South African Men since 1994, ed. Graeme Reid and Liz Walker (Cape Town: Double Storey Books, 2005), 205 – 29; Andrew Tucker, Queer Visibilities: Space, Identity, and Interaction in Cape Town (Malden, MA: Wiley-­Blackwell...

... in Johannesburg and Cape Town and I suspect in the Zuma household itself over which wife will preside at various state functions.7 The problems with my confining of Rubin’s sexual hierarchy to a national frame become apparent here. National discourses on sex in polyglot...

...: the academic Mary Hames, director of the University of the Western Cape’s Gender Equity Unit; the politi- cian Dr. Yvette Abrahams of the Gender Commission for Gender Equality; the traditional leader Fikile Vilakazi of the Coalition of African Lesbians; the activist Theresa Raizenberg of the Out...

...: the academic Mary Hames, director of the University of the Western Cape’s Gender Equity Unit; the politi- cian Dr. Yvette Abrahams of the Gender Commission for Gender Equality; the traditional leader Fikile Vilakazi of the Coalition of African Lesbians; the activist Theresa Raizenberg of the Out...

... among gay men and MSM. The clinic was clearly invested in its mandate to improve care, reduce stigma and provide targeted HIV treatment information to MSM groups. In addition to the Bara clinic, another clinic with similar community outreach programs was operating concurrently in Cape Town during my...

... . Arac de Nyeko Monica . 2006 . “ Jambula Tree .” In African Love Stories: An Anthology , edited by Aidoo Ama Ata , 164 – 77 . Cape Town : Lynne Rienner . Arunga Abigail . 2016 . “ Book Review: The Triangle by Nakisanze Segawa .” Daily Nation , October 14 . Bolotnikova...

... to indicate, the perfect home-away-from-home, a rural outpost with metrosexual tendencies.3 They also advised me to make haste in getting there via Cape Air airline, which advertised itself as “the fastest way to come out.” I was inaugurated, finally, into Provincetown’s easy...

... offers a delightfully nuanced view of IGLHRC’s globe-­spanning advocacy. In 2009 – 10, Thoreson spent ten months working at IGLHRC’s office in New York and three months at the Africa Program office in Cape Town, South Africa. He grounds his research in anthropological...

... danced to the Village People’s song “In the Navy” on four continents.9 Cape Town’s premier gay bar is called The Bronx; Johannesburg’s sex club is called Gotham City; and there is a superficial sameness to commercial gay life (representationally white) in the major South African metropolises...

... . Beauvoir Simone de . [1949] 1956 . The Second Sex . Edited and translated by Parshley H. M. . London : Jonathan Cape . Bersani Leo . [1987] 2010 . Is the Rectum a Grave? And Other Essays . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Bersani Leo . 1995 . Homos . Cambridge...