Gay liberation after May '68

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Gay liberation after May '68

Guy Hocquenghem ; with a foreword by Gilles Deleuze ; translated by Scott Branson

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Duke University Press, 2022

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In Gay Liberation after May '68, first published in France in 1974 and appearing here in English for the first time, Guy Hocquenghem details the rise of the militant gay liberation movement alongside the women's movement and other revolutionary organizing. Writing after the apparent failure and eventual selling out of the revolutionary dream of May 1968, Hocquenghem situates his theories of homosexual desire in the realm of revolutionary practice, arguing that revolutionary movements must be rethought through ideas of desire and sexuality that undo stable gender and sexual identities. Throughout, he persists in a radical vision of the world framed through a queerness that can dismantle the oppressions of capitalism and empire, the family, institutions, and, ultimately, civilization. The articles, communiques, and manifestos that compose the book give an archival glimpse at the issues queer revolutionaries faced while also speaking to today's radical queers as they look to transform their world.

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A Note on Terminology vii Translator's Introduction: A Queer Anarchism That Dare Not Speak Its Name ix Foreword / Gilles Deleuze 1 Volutions 6 1. Black November 13 2. Cultural Revolution 17 3. After-May Politics of the Self 38 4. Youth Culture/Pop High 62 5. Fags 79 6. Motorcycles 102 7. MLF-FHAR: Toward What End? 107 Translator's Notes 119 Index 153

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