MARKET 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Scott Lively, Lowkey, 1996 African Cup Of Nations
Document Summary
Task 9; the politics of belonging; queer politics within africa. Language: non-heteronormative sexuality discourses use western frameworks i. e. lgbtiq, therefore, it is treated as foreign and not useful in an african context. 1996 constitution prevents discrimination against queer groups: 2006 it was the first african country to extend full marriage rights, sa courts overturned prohibitions against sodomy, legalised same sex adoptions. Invalidated children"s status act that made same sex offspring illegitimate: the courts have defined sexual orientation in reference to erotic attraction rather than in reference to a specific act. This has allowed them to outlaw discrimination based on conduct, and discrimination based on sexual identification. Thoreson; the nascent [queer] movement in south africa could not have succeeded had the anti-apartheid struggle not profoundly destabilized and daringly realigned the country"s political and social order . Rights in sa have been accomplished through stylised legal arguments in court that do not require mass support.
