Guy Hocquenghem was born in the suburbs of Paris in 1944 and was educated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. His participation in the May 1968 student rebellion in France formed his allegiance to the Communist Party, which later expelled him because of his homosexuality. He taught philosophy at the University of Vincennes-Saint Denis, Paris and was the author of numerous novels and works of theory. He was the staff writer for the French publication, Libération. Hocquenghem was the first gay man to be a member of the Front Homosexuel d'Action Révolutionnaire (FHAR), originally formed by Lesbian separatists who split from the Mouvement Homophile de France in 1971. He wrote and produced a documentary film about gay history, Race d'Ep! Un siècle d'image de l'homosexualité[1]. Hocquenghem died of an AIDS-related illness in 1988. 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... In modern usage, a communist party is a political party which promotes communism, the sociopolitical ideology based on Marxism. ... Libération (affectionately known as Libé) is a French newspaper founded in Paris in 1973 by Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Victor alias Benny Lévy and Serge July in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. ... Gay Liberation (or Gay Lib) is the name used to describe the radical lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered movement of the late 1960s and early to mid 1970s in North America, Western Europe, and Australia and New Zealand. ... Cover of French homophile literary journal Arcadie, 1975 The word homophile is an alternative to the word homosexual, preferred by some because it emphasizes love (-phile from Greek φιλία) over sex. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Though Hocquenghem had a significant impact on leftist thinking in France, his reputation has failed to grow to international prominence. Only the first of his theoretical tracts, Homosexual Desire and his first novel, L'amour en relief have been translated into English, and though Race d'Ep! has been released in America as The Homosexual Century, like Hocquenghem, it is virtually unknown.

Works

Homosexual Desire (1972, English translation 1978)

Guy Hocquenghem's Homosexual Desire may be the first work of Queer Theory. Drawing on the theoretical work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Hocquenghem critiqued the influential models of the psyche and sexual desire derived from Lacan and Freud. The author also addressed the relation of capitalism to sexualities, the dynamics of desire, and the political effects of gay group-identities. Queer theory is an anti-essentialist theory about sex and gender (and often other aspects of identity, especially race) within the larger field of Queer studies. ... Gilles Deleuze (pron. ... Pierre-Félix Guattari (1930 - 1992) was a French pioneer of institutional psychotherapy, as well as the founder of both Schizoanalysis and the science of Ecosophy. ... Jacques Lacan Jacques Lacan (April 13, 1901 – September 9, 1981) was an influential French psychoanalyst as well as a structuralist who based much of his theories on Ferdinand de Saussures theories on language. ... Sigmund Freud His famous couch Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 - September 23, 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology, a movement that popularized the theory that unconscious motives control much behavior. ... For other uses, see Capitalism (disambiguation). ...

Jeffrey Weeks' 1978 preface to the first English language translation of Homosexual Desire is extreamily helpful in situating the essay in relation to the various, mostly French, theories of subjectiviey and desire surrounding and influencing Hocquenghem's thought. Jeffrey Renwick Weeks is an American mathematician. ...

Republished in French, 2000.

L'Après-Mai des faunes (1974)

The second and untranslated queer-theoretical text.

Co-ire, album systématique de l'enfance (Co-anger: systematic album of childhood) (1976)

Examines childhood sexuality from a Marxist perspective. Written with annother professor, René Schérer. It is rumored that Schérer and Hocquenghem began an affair in 1959, when the later was 15: see historical pederastic couples. Whitman & Duckett Over the course of history there have been a number of recorded love affairs between adult men and adolescent boys. ...

Le dérive homosexuelle (1977)

The third and yet to be translated queer-theoretical text.

La Beauté de métis (1979)

Analyzed French anti-Arab feeling and homophobia.

The Gay travels: guide and glance homosexual over the large metropolises (1980)

L'amour en relief (1982)

Hocquenghem's first and most famous novel. A blind Tunisian boy explores French society and discovers the ways in which pleasure can form a resistance to totalitarianism. The novel gives context to homosexual desire as a resistance to white supremacy and racism. White supremacy is a racist ideology which holds that the white race is superior to other races. ... An African-American man drinks out of the colored only water cooler at a racially segregated street car terminal in the United States in 1939. ...

La Colére d'agneau (The Wrath of the Lamb) (1985)

An experiment in millenarian and apocoliptic narrative taking St. John the Evangelist as its subject. Categories: Saints | Ancient Roman Christianity | Christianity-related stubs ...

L'âme atomique (The Atomic Heart) (1986)

Partly as a response to his deteriorating health, and again in collaboration with Schére, this work espouses a philosphy composed of dandyism, gnosticism, and epicureanism. Sporty Parisian dandies of the 1830s: a girdle was required to achieve this silhouette. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Epicureanism is a system of philosophy based upon the teachings of Epicurus (c. ...

Letter open to those which passed from the Mao collar to the Rotary drill, Marseilles, Agone (1986)

republication in 2003 (foreword of Serge Halimi) - ISBN 2-7489-0005-7

Eve (1987)

This narrative carefully conbines the story of Genesis with the description of the changes in the body from AIDS related symptoms and writen as Hocquenghem's own body deteriated. Genesis (Greek: Γένεσις, having the meanings of birth, creation, cause, beginning, source and origin) is the first book of the Torah, the first book of the Tanakh and also the first book of the Christian Old Testament. ... Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS or Aids) is a collection of symptoms and infections in humans resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). ...

Vayages et aventures extraordinaires du Frère Angelo (1988)

Explores the mind of an Italian monk accompanying the conquistadors to the New World.

The amphitheatre of the dead ones: anticipated memories (1994)

Writing on Hocquenghem

Guy Hocquenghem, Gay Beyond Identity by Bill Marshall, Duke University Press, 1996

External Links

Hocquenghem's films

"The Danger of Child Sexuality", A dialogue with Foucault, Hocquenghem and Jean Danet