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Erschienen in: Urban Forum 2/2015

01.06.2015

Perverts, Outlaws and Dissidents: (Homo)Sexual Citizenship and Urban Space in Johannesburg

verfasst von: Marius Pieterse

Erschienen in: Urban Forum | Ausgabe 2/2015

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Abstract

This article explores some of the interlinkages between the physical enactment of the right to the city, the spatial dimensions of urban sexual citizenship and the legal invocation of sexual rights. Its focus is on the struggles for rights and sexual citizenship by different gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersexed (LGBTI) inhabitants of Johannesburg. It aims to supplement the dominant legal narrative of rights-based victory and liberation with insights gained from the spatial expression of, demand for and denial of sexual rights, understood in light of the broader rubric of the right to the city. Such an approach reveals the spatial and personal particularities of rights and shows up prevailing inequalities in the enjoyment of rights across intersectionalities of race, gender, sexual orientation, culture, class and space. It further exposes the limits of strategic ‘equal rights’ litigation strategies and provides a conceptual framework for ongoing and future contestation over LGBTI rights.
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1
Much spatial regulation of sexuality in South Africa takes place in terms of still-operative provisions of the Sexual Offenses Act 23 of 1957, which revolves around a narrow concept of ‘unlawful carnal intercourse’, defined as ‘carnal intercourse otherwise than between husband and wife’, and prohibits activities such as public indecency, sex work and soliciting sex.
 
2
Headlines included ‘300 Mans in Malle Gefuif’ (trans. ‘300 men in wild frolic’) (Beeld, 23/01/1966) and ‘Police Drive Against Vice “Clubs”’ (Sunday Express, 30/01/1966). Press clippings sourced through GALA.
 
3
The majority of Joburg’s gay clubs and sex venues are in suburban areas, which is fairly unique for even a South African city. For instance, Joburg is the only South African city where the ‘Adult World’ chain of sex shops, which tend to contain back rooms for anonymous gay sex, do not have a branch in the inner city or immediate surrounds, yet have several branches in the suburbs.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Perverts, Outlaws and Dissidents: (Homo)Sexual Citizenship and Urban Space in Johannesburg
verfasst von
Marius Pieterse
Publikationsdatum
01.06.2015
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Urban Forum / Ausgabe 2/2015
Print ISSN: 1015-3802
Elektronische ISSN: 1874-6330
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-014-9247-z

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