Start Submission Become a Reviewer Reading: Securing Pride: Sexuality, Security and the Post-Apartheid State Share: -- Research Article Securing Pride: Sexuality, Security and the Post-Apartheid State Author: -- of security that considers cultural practices, space making, and communal formations as central to its formation. How to Cite: Livermon, X., 2018. Securing Pride: Sexuality, Security and the Post-Apartheid State. Stability: International Journal of Security and Development, 7(1), p.12. DOI: -- organizations possessed insufficient capacity to deal with this problem of gendered, sexualized, and racial violence. Women’s organizations did not seem to fully address sexuality, while LGBT organizations were unwilling to sufficiently address racialized gender.^3 -- space of insecurity for black queers (particularly black queer women), what might it mean for black queer women to publicly declare their sexuality and gender non-conformity on the streets of Soweto? What discursive and political work do such public declarations and claiming of spaces accomplish? -- the advocacy coordinator for FEW, Siphokazi Nombande, claimed that the return to Meadowlands was meant to place renewed pressure on the police to solve the murders and bring additional attention to sexuality based hate crimes in South Africa (Mamba 2015). -- experienced by black queer women, then, is an attempt by black men to reassert masculine control and patriarchal privilege over women who dare to explicitly perform their gender and sexuality in ways that mark their bodies as unavailable for male pleasure. On the other hand, black gender non-conforming men are punished for violating the codes of -- population could safely gather. As thousands of predominantly young black queers, representing a diverse array of stylistic presentations of gender and sexuality, congregated in the park next to the police station, they took pleasure in one another’s visibility. They watched black queer women give speeches and perform, they received information -- carefree black women engaging one another in socially intimate ways: kissing, holding hands publicly, and smiling, flirting with each other. Expressing their sexuality and sexual desire publicly as any other young person might on a warm spring afternoon in a public park. Knowing how rare this occurrence was, I experienced the space as welcoming and -- the Rock also allowed black LGBT+ South Africans to claim and repurpose heterosexualized space. Hence, the Rock was known as a place of fluid sexuality and contact between black heterosexual and black queer South Africans as well as between black and white South Africans and between South Africans and foreigners. Over the years, the club had ceased to -- once inside though, the politics of joy that encapsulated much of the day were on display here in this space. This politics centered on a privileging of freely performative sexuality, and a pleasure around a sense of community and belonging in their own township landspace. The joy and pleasure of being able to participate in a Pride celebration in -- event and its participants unruly and disruptive. Race, sexuality and security Looking at the relationship between Soweto Pride and other Pride events -- controversially, Tushabe (2013) finds in their forthcoming work that state recognition does little to help the most vulnerable gender and sexuality non-conforming Africans. Instead, such recognition simply adds additional state regulation to intimate practices, and privileges some African LGBT+ individuals (those whose practices allow them to be -- The + suggests the inclusivity of a range of identities such as Intersex, Queer, and Questioning which might exist on the gender and sexuality spectrum. My use of both of the terms is meant to express the lack of consensus regarding which term(s) best describe the LGBT+ community and create the conditions to make change. -- and bisexual men are more visible in the movement but the reasons for this visibility seem to be more about economic access and patriarchal notions of women’s sexuality (Ossome 2013; Mbugua, 2013; Makahamadze and Murungi, 2013). -- References 1. Boellstorff, T. 2005. The gay archipelago: Sexuality and nation in Indonesia. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2. Bond, P. 2013. Debt, Uneven Development and Capitalist Crisis in -- Africa World Press. Livermon, X., 2018. Securing Pride: Sexuality, Security and the Post-Apartheid State. Stability: International Journal of Security and Development, 7(1), p.12. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/sta.607 Livermon X. Securing Pride: Sexuality, Security and the Post-Apartheid State. Stability: International Journal of Security and Development. 2018;7(1):12. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/sta.607 Livermon, X. (2018). Securing Pride: Sexuality, Security and the Post-Apartheid State. Stability: International Journal of Security and Development, 7(1), 12. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/sta.607 Livermon X, ‘Securing Pride: Sexuality, Security and the Post-apartheid State’ (2018) 7 Stability: International Journal of Security and Development 12 DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/sta.607 Livermon, Xavier. 2018. “Securing Pride: Sexuality, Security and the Post-apartheid State”. Stability: International Journal of Security and Development 7 (1): 12. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/sta.607 Livermon, Xavier. “Securing Pride: Sexuality, Security and the Post-apartheid State”. Stability: International Journal of Security and Development 7, no. 1 (2018): 12. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/sta.607 Livermon, X.. “Securing Pride: Sexuality, Security and the Post-apartheid State”. Stability: International Journal of Security and Development, vol. 7, no. 1, 2018, p. 12. DOI: