How to be a Real Gay: Gay Identities in Small-town South Africa - Softcover

Reid, Graeme

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1869142438 ISBN 13: 9781869142438

Publisher: University Kwazulu Natal Press, 2013

Synopsis

Rare book

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Review:

It is beautifully written up in a style which makes for entertaining reading and this book is, to my mind, a hybrid genre of oral history, life-stories and participating observations. - Ena Jansen Reid has woven together theory, method, research results and personal observations in an attractive way ... Throughout the book he discusses and tests theories. He does not put down the great story of the history of sexuality in South Africa in a dry way in broad terms, but embeds the most important events in a story. - Gert Hekma

About the Author:

<strong>Graeme Reid</strong> is director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program at Human Rights Watch in New York, USA. He has conducted research, taught and published extensively on gender, sexuality, LGBT issues, and HIV/AIDS. Before joining Human Rights Watch in 2011, Reid was the founding director of the Gay and Lesbian Archives of South Africa, a researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research and a lecturer in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies at Yale University. An anthropologist by training, Reid received a PhD from the University of Amsterdam. Reid is the author of <em>Above the Skyline: The Reverend Tsietsi Thandekiso and the founding of an African Gay Church</em>, an ethnographic study of the early years of an African, gay Pentecostal-style Christian community in Johannesburg.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Kwazulu Natal Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1869142438
• ISBN 13: 9781869142438
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320