Moffies: Gay Life in Southern Africa

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TITLE: Moffies: Gay Life in Southern Africa
AUTHOR: Bart Luirink
YEAR: 2000 (First Edition)
PUBLISHER: David Phillips Publishers

Originally published in Dutch back in the 1998, and then released in English in 2000, Moffies tells of the triumphs and trials of homosexuals in southern Africa during that past decade. It reveals their courageous attempts at coming out and speaking up in a part of the continent where leaders often use homosexuality as a scapegoat for their own political failures and with suspicious persistence promote public homophobia. But it also reveals the more personal struggles of all those gay southern Africans who face the ambivalent anchorage of their own sexual orientation within the complex African cultural milieu.

This title is currently out-of-print. Book is in good used condition, with just a minor crack on the cover (where it bends) and an uncracked spine. Small bend in the lower right-hand corner on the cover. Faint yellowing on the pages, but doesn’t impact readability. And small sticker on the back from the bookstore it was originally purchased at! (I love fun details like that.)

Also available in person in the LGBTQIA+ section of the bookstore in South Haven, Michigan.