Producing Homonormativity in Neoliberal South Africa: Recognition, Redistribution, and the Equality Project
Producing Homonormativity in Neoliberal South Africa: Recognition, Redistribution, and the Equality Project
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在新自由主义南非产生同性规范:承认、再分配和平等项目
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2007
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Natalie Oswin
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Natalie Oswin
T he late South African activist Simon Nkoli made this proclamation in 1990 while speaking to a crowd gathered in the streets of Johannesburg to participate in South Africa’s first gay and lesbian pride march. He would become a member of the executive committee of the National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality (NCGLE, or the Coalition) upon its formation in 1994 and thus a key figure in that organization’s successful campaign to include the term sexual orientation in postapartheid South Africa’s constitutional equality clause. As a result of this lobbying effort, South Africa became the first country in the world to constitutionally entrench the rights of homosexuals, and the Coalition could lay claim to the rather unique distinction of having included gay and lesbian issues in a liberation struggle. After securing further rights gains through the legislature and in the courts throughout the 1990s, the NCGLE ceased to function as a coalition of member organizations and became a freestanding nongovernmental organization (NGO) called the