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.
- Cover
- Contents
- A Note on Terminology
- Translator’s Introduction: A Queer Anarchism That Dare Not Speak Its Name
- Foreword · Gilles Deleuze
- Volutions
- 01. Black November
- 02. Cultural Revolution
- Why We Fight
- The Cultural Revolution Doesn’t Just Happen
- To Change Life
- Fourier
- 03. After-May Politics of the Self
- Everyday Life Deprivatized by “Everything”
- Here and Now
- Talk About Politics
- Geismar Is Geismar
- Long Live Free Bengal
- What Do We Want: To Live!
- The Good Life of Leftists
- 04. Youth Culture / Pop High
- They Didn’t Die of Old Age
- Dope: So Dope!
- Pompidou, We Will Not Be Your Families!
- 05. Fags
- Our Bodies Belong to Us
- For Those Who Think They’re “Normal”
- For Those Who Are Like Us
- Where Is My Chromosome?
- Toward a Homosexual View of the World
- “It’s You Who Must Be Cured”
- 06. Motorcycles
- These Strange Desiring Machines
- Paris Car Motorcycle Bicycle
- 07. MLF–FHAR: Toward What End?
- Women and Fags
- A Shameless Transversalism
- Translator’s Notes
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
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- P
- Q
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