Queer Visibilities Space, Identity and Interaction in Cape Town [Paperback]

Combining current theory and original fieldwork, Queer Visibilities explores the gap between liberal South African law and the reality for groups of queer men living in Cape Town.

• Explores the interface between queer sexuality, race, and urban space to show links between groups of queer men
• Focuses on three main 'population groups' in Cape Town—white, coloured, and black Africans
• Discusses how HIV remains a key issue for queer men in South Africa
• Utilizes new research data—the first comprehensive cross-community study of queer identities in South Africa

List of Figures and Tables.

Series Editors' Preface.

Acknowledgements.

1 Queer Visibilities in Cape Town.

Part I Visibilities.

2 Legacies and Visibilities among White Queer Men.

3 Coloured Visibilities and the Raced Nature of Heteronormative Space.

4 How to be a Queer Xhosa Man in the Cape Town Townships.

Part II Interactions.

5 Social Invisibilities.

6 Political Invisibilities (and Visibilities).

7 The Costs of Invisibility.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.

This attention to the materiality of the city, as well as the relational complexities of historical and contemporary interactions between queer men from different racialised backgrounds is one of the major strengths of this book. Queer Visibilities offers valuable lessons for sexual geographers and urban geographers alike and deserves to be widely read. (Area, 2011)

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