ABSTRACT

During South Africa’s apartheid era, the social and political ideology of Afrikaner nationalism Othered those who disrupted an idealised vision of white heteronormative Afrikaner masculinity. While protections from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation were enshrined in the post-apartheid constitution in 1996, anti-LGBTQ violence remains a reality. It is common for young LGBTQ individuals to exercise the personal freedoms associated with leaving home to attend university to express their sexual orientations and/or gender identities more readily. This paper applies interpretive phenomenology to interview data with members of the LGBTQ student community at a rural university town in an overwhelmingly white Afrikaans region. It explores the complex and ill-defined relationships between LGBTQ student experiences, local heteronormative values, and shifting institutional identities in an era of social transformation.

摘要

在南非的种族隔离时代，南非白人民族主义的社会和政治意识形态影响了那些破坏白人异性恋南非白人男子气概的理想化愿景的人。虽然 1996 年种族隔离后宪法规定了基于性取向的歧视保护，但反 LGBTQ 暴力仍然是现实。年轻的 LGBTQ 个体通常会行使与离家上大学相关的个人自由，以便更容易地表达他们的性取向和/或性别认同。本文将解释现象学应用于采访数据，采访了位于以白人为主的南非荷兰语地区的一个农村大学城的 LGBTQ 学生社区成员。它探讨了 LGBTQ 学生经历之间复杂而模糊的关系，