Beyond The Mountain: Queer Life in "Africa's Gay Capital" contributes to the body of knowledge on the lived experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI) communities in Cape Town.

Introduction: iKapa Lodumo - An introduction to the infamous Cape Town Prologue: Queering Cape Town's posture as "Africa's gay capital" PART I: SPATIAL MAPPING OF PLACE AND MOVEMENT 1 Uncle Gravel 2 Of mountains and multiculturalism: The Cape Town tourist gaze 3 Violent cistems: Trans experiences of bathroom spaces 4 Drag lives here: A photo essay 5 Shifting in the city: Being and longing in Cape Town PART II: HERSTORIES PAST AND PRESENT 6 The politics of safety talk and practices: Lesbians constructing belonging and queer world-making in Cape Town 7 The GALA archives: Preserving the "queerer" side of queer Cape Town 8 Phoenix rising above isolation 9 Unearthing silences about raced and gendered queerness in Stellenbosch 10 The Miss Gay Western Cape Pageant: An alternative black queer space 11 Black lesbian politics and organising spaces PART III: QUEER PERFORMATIVITY IN THE CITY 12 Graaff's Pool: A photo essay 13 Scene of the crime 14 InterseXion 15 Disruption and withdrawal: Responses to 21st century Prides from the South 16 "Sy is 'n eendjie van 'n ander dam": Race, class and sexual identity intersections in same-sex marriage 17 No milk, no honey, no safe space: A review of The Promised Epilogue: No Easter Sunday for queers