ABSTRACT

In this article, I use Gay Pages as a local archive of cultural meaning to think about the relationship between race, sexuality, and identity in a post-apartheid context. Through an analysis of the quarterly magazine series, I focus on how an invisible and unacknowledged whiteness marks privileged ways of both speaking and being heard. I argue that whiteness continues to function as the custodian of the normative in much of South Africa’s public discourse – a post-apartheid racial politics with implications that exceed this particular cultural text. I focus on editions of the magazine published between 2012 and 2016 in order to identify the continuities in normative racial and gendered power. The analysis extends beyond a consideration of the magazine’s erasure of non-white bodies and takes the form of a close reading of the assumptions and racial histories that underpin a number of articles and editorials. My analysis of the magazine centres on several key themes including the interplay between local ideas and transnational cultural flows; the production and circulation of an assimilationist aesthetic; revisionist histories of the past; and representations of pride marches.

摘要

在本文中，我使用同性恋页面作为当地文化意义的档案馆，可以考虑种族隔离之后的种族，性和身份之间的关系。通过对每季杂志系列的分析，我将重点放在看不见的和未被承认的白色如何标记说话和聆听的特权方式上。我认为，白人在南非大部分公共话语中仍继续充当规范的保管人，这是种族隔离之后的种族政治，其影响已超出了特定的文化文本。我专注于2012年至2016年间出版的杂志版本，以确认规范性种族和性别权力的连续性。该分析超出了该杂志对非白色物体的消除的考虑范围，并采取了对构成许多文章和社论基础的假设和种族历史的仔细阅读的形式。我对这本杂志的分析集中在几个关键主题上，包括本地思想与跨国文化交流之间的相互作用。同化美学的产生和传播；过去的修正主义历史；和骄傲游行的表现。