Abstract
Contemporary South African carnival facilitates a complex process of renegotiation through which various issues regarding sexual identity are grappled with. In a postapartheid context, convolution and ambivalence underscore the local visualization of LGBT (lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgendered) and/or queer identities — this is particularly evident in the Cape Town Pride Parade1 during which diverse sexual identities are mobilized as carnivalesque responses to the normative authority of Cape Town (the city within which this carnival takes place) and the larger South African arena. In studying this event and its depiction in the media, the local transformation of the sexual topography can be recorded as this carnival is indicative of changes that have occurred in the perception of homosexuality since the establishment of a democracy in South Africa.
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