Guy Hocquenghem

Guy Hocquenghem ( born December 3, 1946 in Paris, † August 28, 1988 ) was a French author, philosopher, professor and LGBT activist.

Life

The son of the mathematician Alexis Hocquenghem met his lifelong friend and scientific partner René Schérer already know as a high school student - it was his philosophy teacher. As a student of the École normale supérieure, he participated in the French protests in May 68 and was short at this time a member of the Communist Party.

In 1971 he joined the Organisation front homosexuals d' Action Révolutionnaire ( fhar ), former members of the organization Mouvement Homo Audiophile de France had founded. After the establishment of the University of Paris VIII, he taught there together with Schérer philosophy, but replacing refused to shortly before his death, also to appoint him to full professor. Hocquenghem wrote several books; in particular, he raised the issue of homosexuality and became one of the pioneers of queer theory. His book The homosexual desire in 1972 was internationally of the first of this theory. He influenced in the late seventies of the last century largely journalistic line of the newspaper Libération. In his last years he worked mainly as a novelist.

With the film director Lionel Soukaz he produced the 1979 documentary on the history of homosexuality Race d' Ep! Hocquenghem died in 1988 of complications from AIDS.

Works by Hocquenghem (selection)

Literature (selection )

• Bill Marshall: Guy Hocquenghem: Beyond Gay Identity (Duke University Press, 1996)