With a focus on contemporary South Africa, and through the lens of queer identity and politics, the article critiques the limitations and possibilities for queerness and its futures in post-apartheid South Africa. From the advent of constitutional democracy and its ushering in of human rights, the article analyses developments in the politics of sexuality in the context of enduring systems of violence, rooted in colonial and apartheid histories. Discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people – at the intersection with other forms of discrimination – has emerged as a focal point for political resistances in the post-apartheid period. These resistances are interrogated, including the paradoxes of rights struggles that they expose, and the contradictions between formal equality gains and present queer realities that they call attention to. With an emphasis on enduring inequalities within post-apartheid society, and on the racialisation of violence against queerness, the article explores various political formations of and for queer freedom. In navigating these dynamics of inequality and difference, the article urges a radical politics – both for relating as equals, and against the violent ends of othering.

本文着眼于当代南非，并通过酷儿身份和政治的角度，对种族隔离后的南非酷儿及其未来的局限性和可能性进行了批评。从宪政民主的出现及其人权的引入出发，文章分析了根源于殖民和种族隔离历史的持久性暴力制度背景下性政治的发展。在与其他形式的歧视相交处，对女同性恋，男同性恋，双性恋，变性者和双性恋者的歧视已成为种族隔离后政治抵抗的焦点。这些阻力遭到了讯问，包括它们暴露出的权利斗争的悖论，以及形式平等收益与他们所关注的现实现实之间的矛盾。本文着重强调种族隔离后社会中持久的不平等，以及针对酷儿暴力的种族化，探讨了酷儿自由的各种政治形式。在探讨这些不平等和差异的动态时，文章敦促采取激进的政治政策-既要平等相处，又要反对他人的暴力目的。