Mapping the black colored queer geography of Johannesburg’s lesbian ladies through narrative

Hugo Canham

Department of Psychology University regarding the Witwatersrand Johannesburg

To be black colored, working course, located in a township and lesbian is usually to be a body that is discordant. It is an experience that is markedly different being a socio-economically privileged resident of Johannesburg. This paper sets down to map marginalised sexualities onto current social fissures appearing away from Southern Africa’s divided reputation for apartheid. It contends that whilst the repeal for the Sexual Offences Act, 1957 (Act No. 23 of 1957, formerly the Immorality Act, 1927) therefore the promulgation associated with Civil Union Bill (2006) has received an effect that is liberating the lesbian community of Johannesburg; the career of real room is profoundly informed because of the intersecting confluence of battle, course, age, sex, and put. Continue reading →