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	*''L'Après-Mai des faunes'' (1974), published in English in 2022 as ''Gay Liberation After May '68''.<ref>''[https://library.lol/main/F75A2FB48CD50BB31EE77B40DACF9293 Gay Liberation After May '68]'' [https://www.dukeupress.edu/gay-liberation-after-may-68 translated] by Scott Branson (Duke University Press, 2022).</ref> ~~Dtails~~ the rise of the French militant gay liberation movement, alongside the women’s movement and other revolutionary organizing, from Hocquenghem's perspective. According to the publisher:		*''L'Après-Mai des faunes'' (1974), published in English in 2022 as ''Gay Liberation After May '68''.<ref>''[https://library.lol/main/F75A2FB48CD50BB31EE77B40DACF9293 Gay Liberation After May '68]'' [https://www.dukeupress.edu/gay-liberation-after-may-68 translated] by Scott Branson (Duke University Press, 2022).</ref> Details the rise of the French militant gay liberation movement, alongside the women’s movement and other revolutionary organizing, from Hocquenghem's perspective. According to the publisher:

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	'''Guy Hocquenghem''' (10 December 1946 – 28 August 1988) was a French writer, philosopher, and queer theorist. He was said to be the first French person in the twentieth century to publicly come out as homosexual to the press, on January 10, 1972.<ref>''[https://library.lol/main/F75A2FB48CD50BB31EE77B40DACF9293 Gay Liberation After May '68]'' [https://www.dukeupress.edu/gay-liberation-after-may-68 translated] by Scott Branson (Duke University Press, 2022), footnote 4, p. 124.</ref>		'''Guy Hocquenghem''' (10 December 1946 – 28 August 1988) was a French writer, philosopher, and queer theorist. He was said to be the first French person in the twentieth century to publicly come out as homosexual to the press, on January 10, 1972.<ref>''[https://library.lol/main/F75A2FB48CD50BB31EE77B40DACF9293 Gay Liberation After May '68]'' [https://www.dukeupress.edu/gay-liberation-after-may-68 translated] by Scott Branson (Duke University Press, 2022), footnote 4, p. 124.</ref>

	At the age of 15, Hocquenghem began a homosexual affair with his high school philosophy teacher [[René Schérer]] and they remained lifelong friends. Hocquenghem was an academic peer to many of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, including [[Michel Foucault]] and others who (alongside his lover ~~[[René~~ Schérer~~]])~~ signed the 1977 [[Wikipedia:French petition against age of consent laws\|French petition against age of consent laws]]. In 1978, he participated in a radio conversation in Paris between himself, philosopher Michel Foucault, and playwright/actor/lawyer Jean Danet, debating sexual consent and reform to the [[age of consent]]. It was transcribed and published as "''The Danger of Child Sexuality''" and, later, "''Sexual Morality and the Law''"~~, and can be read~~ online ~~at Ipce~~.<ref>[https://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/danger.htm ''The Danger of Child Sexuality''] at [[Ipce]]</ref>		At the age of 15, Hocquenghem began a homosexual affair with his high school philosophy teacher [[René Schérer]], and they remained lifelong friends. Hocquenghem was an academic peer to many of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, including [[Michel Foucault]] and others who - alongside his lover Schérer - signed the 1977 [[Wikipedia:French petition against age of consent laws\|French petition against age of consent laws]]. In 1978, he participated in a radio conversation in Paris between himself, philosopher [[Michel Foucault]], and playwright/actor/lawyer Jean Danet, debating sexual consent and reform to the [[age of consent]]. It was transcribed and published as "''The Danger of Child Sexuality''" and, later, "''Sexual Morality and the Law.''" The text is widely available in print or online.<ref>For online, see [https://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/danger.htm ''The Danger of Child Sexuality''] at [[Ipce]].</ref>

	Hocquenghem was a militant left-wing radical who participated in the May 1968 student rebellion in France. He was the staff writer for the French publication ''Libération'', and a leading member of the ''Front Homosexuel d'Action Révolutionnaire'' (FHAR), in English, the ''Homosexual Front for Revolutionary Action'', which opposed the age of consent.<ref>Marshall biography (1996) cited in reference list, p. 12.</ref> A ''Front de libération de la jeunesse'' (Youth Liberation Front) was created within the FHAR which contested the age of sexual majority, and chose “Minors want to be fucked!” as its protest slogan.<ref>Jean Bérard, Nicolas Sallée, Translated by Ethan Rundell, [https://www.cairn-int.info/article-E_CLIO1_042_0099--the-ages-of-consent-gay-activism-and.htm#re10no10 The Age(s) of Consent: Gay Activism and the Sexuality of Minors in France and Quebec (1970-1980)], in Clio: Women, Gender, History. Volume 42, Issue 2 (July 2015), pp. 99-124 (paragraph 10). See reference 22.</ref> Hocquenghem was loyal to the French Communist Party, but was expelled because of his homosexuality.		Hocquenghem was a militant left-wing radical who participated in the May 1968 student rebellion in France. He was the staff writer for the French publication ''Libération'', and a leading member of the ''Front Homosexuel d'Action Révolutionnaire'' (FHAR), in English, the ''Homosexual Front for Revolutionary Action'', which opposed the age of consent.<ref>Marshall biography (1996) cited in reference list, p. 12.</ref> A ''Front de libération de la jeunesse'' (Youth Liberation Front) was created within the FHAR which contested the age of sexual majority, and chose “Minors want to be fucked!” as its protest slogan.<ref>Jean Bérard, Nicolas Sallée, Translated by Ethan Rundell, [https://www.cairn-int.info/article-E_CLIO1_042_0099--the-ages-of-consent-gay-activism-and.htm#re10no10 The Age(s) of Consent: Gay Activism and the Sexuality of Minors in France and Quebec (1970-1980)], in Clio: Women, Gender, History. Volume 42, Issue 2 (July 2015), pp. 99-124 (paragraph 10). See reference 22.</ref> Hocquenghem was loyal to the French Communist Party, but was expelled because of his homosexuality.
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	Hocquenghem taught philosophy at the University of Vincennes-Saint Denis, Paris, and wrote numerous novels and works of theory. He had a significant impact on leftist thinking in France but is not very well known outside of academic spaces frequented by gay and queer theorists such as [[Jeffrey Weeks]], who wrote the 1978 preface to the first English translation of Hocquenghem's revolutionary theoretical tract, ''Homosexual Desire''<ref>''[https://library.lol/main/A454A03998418233F129F6867219F5A7 Homosexual Desire]''</ref> (1972, English translation 1978), speculated to be the first work of [[Queer Theory]]. Some of ~~his~~ writing and thought concerns [[pederasty]]/age-disparate homosexuality, intergenerational sex, and the social construction and institution of childhood.		Hocquenghem taught philosophy at the University of Vincennes-Saint Denis, Paris, and wrote numerous novels and works of theory. He had a significant impact on leftist thinking in France, but is not very well known outside of academic spaces frequented by gay and queer theorists such as [[Jeffrey Weeks]], who wrote the 1978 preface to the first English translation of Hocquenghem's revolutionary theoretical tract ''Homosexual Desire''<ref>''[https://library.lol/main/A454A03998418233F129F6867219F5A7 Homosexual Desire]''</ref> (1972, English translation 1978). The book is speculated to be the first work of [[Queer Theory]]. Some of Hocquenghem's writing and thought concerns [[pederasty]]/age-disparate homosexuality, intergenerational sex, and the social construction and institution of childhood.

	Hocquenghem died of AIDS-related complications on 28 August 1988, aged 41.		Hocquenghem died of AIDS-related complications on 28 August 1988, aged 41.
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	==Relevant and English publications==		==Relevant and English publications==

	Other than ''Homosexual Desire'' (1972), ~~his~~ works include:		Other than ''Homosexual Desire'' (1972), Hocquenghem's works include:

	*''The Screwball Asses'' (1973) (English translation by Noura Wedell, Semiotext(e), 2010) - His 2nd most noted work, this essay originally appeared in the twelfth (March 1973) issue of ''Recherches'', a French journal~~. Edited~~ by [[Félix Guattari]] and the ''FHAR''~~, the~~ issue was devoted to homosexuality and included [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|positive testimony]] of male same-sex age-gap sex. The issue bore the title ''Trois milliards de pervers: Grande Encyclopédie des Homosexualités'' (''Three Billion Perverts: Grand Encyclopedia of Homosexualities''). In an example of state enforced [[censorship]], shortly after publication, copies of the issue were seized by French authorities where the issue was ordered destroyed and Guattari was fined 600 francs for his role in the issue's creation.<ref>He also wrote for semiotext(e). See [https://library.lol/main/A7F25583695BE38CC790B97966DA5824 semiotext(e): Volume II, No. 3, 1977. Anti-Oedipus: From Psychoanalysis to Schizopolitics.]</ref>		*''The Screwball Asses'' (1973) (English translation by Noura Wedell, Semiotext(e), 2010) - His 2nd most noted work, this essay originally appeared in the twelfth (March 1973) issue of ''Recherches'', a French journal edited by [[Félix Guattari]] and the ''FHAR''. The issue was devoted to homosexuality, and included [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|positive testimony]] of male same-sex age-gap sex. The issue bore the title ''Trois milliards de pervers: Grande Encyclopédie des Homosexualités'' (''Three Billion Perverts: Grand Encyclopedia of Homosexualities''). In an example of state enforced [[censorship]], shortly after publication, copies of the issue were seized by French authorities, where the issue was ordered destroyed and Guattari as lead editor was fined 600 francs for his role in the issue's creation.<ref>He also wrote for semiotext(e). See [https://library.lol/main/A7F25583695BE38CC790B97966DA5824 semiotext(e): Volume II, No. 3, 1977. Anti-Oedipus: From Psychoanalysis to Schizopolitics.]</ref>

	On ~~the~~ publication, the historian Amin (2014) wrote:		On this publication, the queer historian Kadji Amin (2014) wrote:

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	*''L'Après-Mai des faunes'' (1974) ~~(Published~~ in English in 2022 as ''Gay Liberation After May '68''),<ref>''[https://library.lol/main/F75A2FB48CD50BB31EE77B40DACF9293 Gay Liberation After May '68]'' [https://www.dukeupress.edu/gay-liberation-after-may-68 translated] by Scott Branson (Duke University Press, 2022).</ref> ~~Details~~ the rise of the French militant gay liberation movement alongside the women’s movement and other revolutionary organizing, from Hocquenghem's perspective. According to the publisher:		*''L'Après-Mai des faunes'' (1974), published in English in 2022 as ''Gay Liberation After May '68''.<ref>''[https://library.lol/main/F75A2FB48CD50BB31EE77B40DACF9293 Gay Liberation After May '68]'' [https://www.dukeupress.edu/gay-liberation-after-may-68 translated] by Scott Branson (Duke University Press, 2022).</ref> Dtails the rise of the French militant gay liberation movement, alongside the women’s movement and other revolutionary organizing, from Hocquenghem's perspective. According to the publisher:

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	*''Co-ire'', ''album systématique de l'enfance'' (''Coming and Going Together: A Systematic Childhood Album'') (1976) examines childhood sexuality from a Marxist perspective, co-authored with professor and lover [[René Schérer]]. In English translation on library genesis.<ref>[https://library.lol/main/77A55B2917AE7FEF4B475768EAF6AFDE ''Co-ire, album systématique de l'enfance'']. [https://annas-archive.org/md5/77a55b2917ae7fef4b475768eaf6afde Also available from Annas archive].</ref>		*''Co-ire'': ''album systématique de l'enfance'' (''Coming and Going Together: A Systematic Childhood Album'') (1976) examines childhood sexuality from a Marxist perspective, co-authored with professor and lover [[René Schérer]]. In English translation on library genesis.<ref>[https://library.lol/main/77A55B2917AE7FEF4B475768EAF6AFDE ''Co-ire, album systématique de l'enfance'']. [https://annas-archive.org/md5/77a55b2917ae7fef4b475768eaf6afde Also available from Annas archive].</ref>

	*''L'Amour en relief'' (''Love in Relief'') (1982, English translation 1985) is 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 contextualizes homosexual desire as a resistance to white supremacy and racism. English translated PDF available via Annas archive.<ref>[https://annas-archive.org/md5/cd844e2bedd62f11d6f29a2818245c32 Hocquenghem, ''Love in relief'' (L'amour en relief). New York: SeaHorse Press, 1986].</ref>		*''L'Amour en relief'' (''Love in Relief'') (1982, English translation 1985) is Hocquenghem's first and most famous novel. In it, a blind Tunisian boy explores French society and discovers the ways in which pleasure can form a resistance to totalitarianism. The novel contextualizes homosexual desire as a resistance to white supremacy and racism. English translated PDF available via Annas archive.<ref>[https://annas-archive.org/md5/cd844e2bedd62f11d6f29a2818245c32 Hocquenghem, ''Love in relief'' (L'amour en relief). New York: SeaHorse Press, 1986].</ref>

	==Hocquenghem on intergenerational sex==		==Hocquenghem on intergenerational sex==

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	'''Guy Hocquenghem''' (10 December 1946 – 28 August 1988) was a French writer, philosopher, and queer theorist. He was the first French person in the twentieth century to publicly come out as homosexual to the press, on January 10, 1972.<ref>''[https://library.lol/main/F75A2FB48CD50BB31EE77B40DACF9293 Gay Liberation After May '68]'' [https://www.dukeupress.edu/gay-liberation-after-may-68 translated] by Scott Branson (Duke University Press, 2022), footnote 4, p. 124.</ref>		'''Guy Hocquenghem''' (10 December 1946 – 28 August 1988) was a French writer, philosopher, and queer theorist. He was said to be the first French person in the twentieth century to publicly come out as homosexual to the press, on January 10, 1972.<ref>''[https://library.lol/main/F75A2FB48CD50BB31EE77B40DACF9293 Gay Liberation After May '68]'' [https://www.dukeupress.edu/gay-liberation-after-may-68 translated] by Scott Branson (Duke University Press, 2022), footnote 4, p. 124.</ref>

	At the age of 15, Hocquenghem began a homosexual affair with his high school philosophy teacher [[René Schérer]] and they remained lifelong friends. Hocquenghem was an academic peer to many of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, including [[Michel Foucault]] and others who (alongside his lover [[René Schérer]]) signed the 1977 [[Wikipedia:French petition against age of consent laws\|French petition against age of consent laws]]. In 1978, he participated in a radio conversation in Paris between himself, philosopher Michel Foucault, and playwright/actor/lawyer Jean Danet, debating sexual consent and reform to the [[age of consent]]. It was transcribed and published as "''The Danger of Child Sexuality''" and, later, "''Sexual Morality and the Law''", and can be read online at Ipce.<ref>[https://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/danger.htm ''The Danger of Child Sexuality''] at [[Ipce]]</ref>		At the age of 15, Hocquenghem began a homosexual affair with his high school philosophy teacher [[René Schérer]] and they remained lifelong friends. Hocquenghem was an academic peer to many of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, including [[Michel Foucault]] and others who (alongside his lover [[René Schérer]]) signed the 1977 [[Wikipedia:French petition against age of consent laws\|French petition against age of consent laws]]. In 1978, he participated in a radio conversation in Paris between himself, philosopher Michel Foucault, and playwright/actor/lawyer Jean Danet, debating sexual consent and reform to the [[age of consent]]. It was transcribed and published as "''The Danger of Child Sexuality''" and, later, "''Sexual Morality and the Law''", and can be read online at Ipce.<ref>[https://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/danger.htm ''The Danger of Child Sexuality''] at [[Ipce]]</ref>

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	Hocquenghem taught philosophy at the University of Vincennes-Saint Denis, Paris, and wrote numerous novels and works of theory. He had a significant impact on leftist thinking in France but is not very well known outside of academic spaces frequented by gay and queer theorists such as Jeffrey Weeks, who wrote the 1978 preface to the first English translation of Hocquenghem's revolutionary theoretical tract, ''Homosexual Desire''<ref>''[https://library.lol/main/A454A03998418233F129F6867219F5A7 Homosexual Desire]''</ref> (1972, English translation 1978), speculated to be the first work of [[Queer Theory]]. Some of his writing and thought concerns [[pederasty]]/age-disparate homosexuality, intergenerational sex, and the social construction and institution of childhood.		Hocquenghem taught philosophy at the University of Vincennes-Saint Denis, Paris, and wrote numerous novels and works of theory. He had a significant impact on leftist thinking in France but is not very well known outside of academic spaces frequented by gay and queer theorists such as [[Jeffrey Weeks]], who wrote the 1978 preface to the first English translation of Hocquenghem's revolutionary theoretical tract, ''Homosexual Desire''<ref>''[https://library.lol/main/A454A03998418233F129F6867219F5A7 Homosexual Desire]''</ref> (1972, English translation 1978), speculated to be the first work of [[Queer Theory]]. Some of his writing and thought concerns [[pederasty]]/age-disparate homosexuality, intergenerational sex, and the social construction and institution of childhood.

	Hocquenghem died of AIDS-related complications on 28 August 1988, aged 41.		Hocquenghem died of AIDS-related complications on 28 August 1988, aged 41.
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	*''Co-ire'', ''album systématique de l'enfance'' (''Coming and Going Together: A Systematic Childhood Album'') (1976) examines childhood sexuality from a Marxist perspective, co-authored with professor and lover [[René Schérer]]. In English translation on library genesis.<ref>[https://library.lol/main/77A55B2917AE7FEF4B475768EAF6AFDE ''Co-ire, album systématique de l'enfance'']</ref>		*''Co-ire'', ''album systématique de l'enfance'' (''Coming and Going Together: A Systematic Childhood Album'') (1976) examines childhood sexuality from a Marxist perspective, co-authored with professor and lover [[René Schérer]]. In English translation on library genesis.<ref>[https://library.lol/main/77A55B2917AE7FEF4B475768EAF6AFDE ''Co-ire, album systématique de l'enfance'']. [https://annas-archive.org/md5/77a55b2917ae7fef4b475768eaf6afde Also available from Annas archive].</ref>

	*''L'Amour en relief'' (''Love in Relief'') (1982, English translation 1985) is 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 contextualizes homosexual desire as a resistance to white supremacy and racism.		*''L'Amour en relief'' (''Love in Relief'') (1982, English translation 1985) is 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 contextualizes homosexual desire as a resistance to white supremacy and racism. English translated PDF available via Annas archive.<ref>[https://annas-archive.org/md5/cd844e2bedd62f11d6f29a2818245c32 Hocquenghem, ''Love in relief'' (L'amour en relief). New York: SeaHorse Press, 1986].</ref>

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	''The crime vanishes, nobody is concerned any longer to know whether in fact a crime was committed or not, whether someone has been hurt or not. No one is even concerned any more whether there actually was a victim. The crime feeds totally upon itself in a man-hunt, by the identification, the isolation of the category of individuals regarded as pedophiles. It culminates in that sort of call for a lynching sent out nowadays by the gutter press.''</blockquote>		''The crime vanishes, nobody is concerned any longer to know whether in fact a crime was committed or not, whether someone has been hurt or not. No one is even concerned any more whether there actually was a victim. The crime feeds totally upon itself in a man-hunt, by the identification, the isolation of the category of individuals regarded as pedophiles. It culminates in that sort of call for a lynching sent out nowadays by the gutter press.''</blockquote>

	Hocquenghem's thought on childhood and minor-older sexual experience is discussed by Bill Marshall's English language biography, ''Guy Hocquenghem: Theorising the Gay Nation'' (1996).<ref>[https://library.lol/main/1B4E90EBD20C1F432D88B726E8F1C1BD Guy Hocquenghem: Theorising the Gay Nation]. London: Pluto Press, 1996.</ref>		Hocquenghem's thought on childhood and minor-older sexual experience is discussed in Bill Marshall's English language biography, ''Guy Hocquenghem: Theorising the Gay Nation'' (1996).<ref>[https://library.lol/main/1B4E90EBD20C1F432D88B726E8F1C1BD Guy Hocquenghem: Theorising the Gay Nation]. London: Pluto Press, 1996.</ref>

	For Marshall, Hocquenghem sees revolutionary potential in:		For Marshall, Hocquenghem sees revolutionary potential in:
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	Other scholars, notably Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Tim Dean, have discussed his theories and politics more generally.<ref>Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. [http://library.lol/main/98CCDF66C37761F8D489AA543FAB5433 “Anality,” in ''The Weather in Proust''] (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011). Tim Dean, [https://doi.org/10.1632/S0030812900165897 “The Antisocial Homosexual,”] ''pmla'' 121, no. 3 (2006): 826–28. For criticism of , see James Penney, [https://library.lol/main/C94FF0AB416699A626FDA8D9E305BF0E Capitalism and Schizoanalysis], in ''After Queer Theory : The Limits of Sexual Politics'' (London: Pluto, 2013).</ref> Similar to ~~art~~ of [[Eric Gill]] or a mural featuring [[Allen Ginsberg]], the 2020's saw Hocquenghem's legacy attacked in an attempt to [[Censorship\|censor]]/remove public mentions of his name. In August 2020, the "Hocquenghem affair" ~~disturbed the militant feminist and homosexual world~~:		Other scholars, notably Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Tim Dean, have discussed his theories and politics more generally.<ref>Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. [http://library.lol/main/98CCDF66C37761F8D489AA543FAB5433 “Anality,” in ''The Weather in Proust''] (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011). Tim Dean, [https://doi.org/10.1632/S0030812900165897 “The Antisocial Homosexual,”] ''pmla'' 121, no. 3 (2006): 826–28. For criticism of , see James Penney, [https://library.lol/main/C94FF0AB416699A626FDA8D9E305BF0E Capitalism and Schizoanalysis], in ''After Queer Theory : The Limits of Sexual Politics'' (London: Pluto, 2013).</ref> Similar to vandalism of [[Eric Gill]]'s art or censorship of a mural featuring [[Allen Ginsberg]], the 2020's saw Hocquenghem's legacy attacked in an attempt to [[Censorship\|censor]]/remove public mentions of his name. August 2020 saw the "Hocquenghem affair":

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	At the age of 15, Hocquenghem began a homosexual affair with his high school philosophy teacher [[René Schérer]] and they remained lifelong friends. Hocquenghem was an academic peer to many of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, including [[Michel Foucault]] and others who (alongside his lover [[René Schérer]]) signed the 1977 [[Wikipedia:French petition against age of consent laws\|French petition against age of consent laws]]. In 1978, he participated in a radio conversation in Paris between himself, philosopher Michel Foucault, and playwright/actor/lawyer Jean Danet, debating sexual consent and reform to the [[age of consent]]. It was transcribed and published as "''The Danger of Child Sexuality''" and, later, "''Sexual Morality and the Law''", and can be read online at Ipce.<ref>[https://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/danger.htm ''The Danger of Child Sexuality''] at [[Ipce]]</ref>		At the age of 15, Hocquenghem began a homosexual affair with his high school philosophy teacher [[René Schérer]] and they remained lifelong friends. Hocquenghem was an academic peer to many of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, including [[Michel Foucault]] and others who (alongside his lover [[René Schérer]]) signed the 1977 [[Wikipedia:French petition against age of consent laws\|French petition against age of consent laws]]. In 1978, he participated in a radio conversation in Paris between himself, philosopher Michel Foucault, and playwright/actor/lawyer Jean Danet, debating sexual consent and reform to the [[age of consent]]. It was transcribed and published as "''The Danger of Child Sexuality''" and, later, "''Sexual Morality and the Law''", and can be read online at Ipce.<ref>[https://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/danger.htm ''The Danger of Child Sexuality''] at [[Ipce]]</ref>

	Hocquenghem was a militant left-wing radical who participated in the May 1968 student rebellion in France. He was the staff writer for the French publication ''Libération'', and a ~~prominent~~ member of the ~~Front~~ ''Homosexuel d'Action Révolutionnaire'' (FHAR), which opposed the age of consent.<ref>Marshall biography (1996) cited in reference list, p. 12.</ref> He was loyal to the French Communist Party, but was expelled because of his homosexuality.		Hocquenghem was a militant left-wing radical who participated in the May 1968 student rebellion in France. He was the staff writer for the French publication ''Libération'', and a leading member of the ''Front Homosexuel d'Action Révolutionnaire'' (FHAR), in English, the ''Homosexual Front for Revolutionary Action'', which opposed the age of consent.<ref>Marshall biography (1996) cited in reference list, p. 12.</ref> A ''Front de libération de la jeunesse'' (Youth Liberation Front) was created within the FHAR which contested the age of sexual majority, and chose “Minors want to be fucked!” as its protest slogan.<ref>Jean Bérard, Nicolas Sallée, Translated by Ethan Rundell, [https://www.cairn-int.info/article-E_CLIO1_042_0099--the-ages-of-consent-gay-activism-and.htm#re10no10 The Age(s) of Consent: Gay Activism and the Sexuality of Minors in France and Quebec (1970-1980)], in Clio: Women, Gender, History. Volume 42, Issue 2 (July 2015), pp. 99-124 (paragraph 10). See reference 22.</ref> Hocquenghem was loyal to the French Communist Party, but was expelled because of his homosexuality.

	The academic Ron Haas (2004) described him as "a founding father of homosexual liberation in France":		The academic Ron Haas (2004) described him as "a founding father of homosexual liberation in France":

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	''The evening of 30 August 2020, the cameras of RT France followed Cassiopée, a millitant from the feminist collective Les Grenades. Her act: pouring fake blood on the plaque commemorating Guy Hocquenghem affixed at the base of a building where he had lived in Paris. According to her, Hocquenghem would be found guilty of apology for pedocriminality. The city administration took its courage in both hands and stealthily removed the compromising plaque some days later without saying a word~~. The journalist Amaury Brelet1 was the first to relay the matter, in the reactionary journal Valeurs Actuelles~~.''<ref>[https://girlhocquenghem.neocities.org/2020/09/29/reading-hocquenghem Reading Hocquenghem], ''Trou Noir'' 28 September 2020, September issue.</ref>		''The evening of 30 August 2020, the cameras of RT France followed Cassiopée, a millitant from the feminist collective Les Grenades. Her act: pouring fake blood on the plaque commemorating Guy Hocquenghem affixed at the base of a building where he had lived in Paris. According to her, Hocquenghem would be found guilty of apology for pedocriminality. The city administration took its courage in both hands and stealthily removed the compromising plaque some days later without saying a word.''<ref>[https://girlhocquenghem.neocities.org/2020/09/29/reading-hocquenghem Reading Hocquenghem], ''Trou Noir'' 28 September 2020, September issue.</ref>
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	<blockquote>''The child is caught in panoptic fields ''[...]'' which means that he or she is always localized and observed in the institutions of school and family.''<ref>Hocquenghem and Schérer's 1974 article in ''[[Wikipedia: Les Temps modernes\|Les Temps modernes]]'' emphasises the importance, in this process, of surveillance to prevent masturbation.</ref>		<blockquote>
			''The child is caught in panoptic fields ''[...]'' which means that he or she is always localized and observed in the institutions of school and family.''<ref>Hocquenghem and Schérer's 1974 article in ''[[Wikipedia: Les Temps modernes\|Les Temps modernes]]'' emphasises the importance, in this process, of surveillance to prevent masturbation.</ref>

	[...]		[...]

	''The child is disciplined into personhood. So what a liberation of the child actually means is the undermining of the adult/child distinction and the consequences of that for the liberation of all: 'childhood is not a fixed state which adulthood simply succeeds, but . . . there is a permanence of childhood that also concerns society in general'. ''[... They]'' seek to dislodge genital-centred sex from its privileged position. ''[... For them,]'' children should be allowed to consent, and the fact that they are not is part of their social disempowerment.'' (pp. 49-50).</blockquote>		''The child is disciplined into personhood. So what a liberation of the child actually means is the undermining of the adult/child distinction and the consequences of that for the liberation of all: 'childhood is not a fixed state which adulthood simply succeeds, but . . . there is a permanence of childhood that also concerns society in general'. ''[... They]'' seek to dislodge genital-centred sex from its privileged position. ''[... For them,]'' children should be allowed to consent, and the fact that they are not is part of their social disempowerment.'' (pp. 49-50).
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	Other scholars, notably Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Tim Dean, have discussed his theories and politics more generally.<ref>Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. [http://library.lol/main/98CCDF66C37761F8D489AA543FAB5433 “Anality,” in ''The Weather in Proust''] (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011). Tim Dean, [https://doi.org/10.1632/S0030812900165897 “The Antisocial Homosexual,”] ''pmla'' 121, no. 3 (2006): 826–28. For criticism of , see James Penney, [https://library.lol/main/C94FF0AB416699A626FDA8D9E305BF0E Capitalism and Schizoanalysis], in ''After Queer Theory : The Limits of Sexual Politics'' (London: Pluto, 2013).</ref> Similar to art of [[Eric Gill]] or a mural featuring [[Allen Ginsberg]], the 2020's saw Hocquenghem's legacy attacked in an attempt to [[Censorship\|censor]]/remove public mentions of his name. In August 2020, the "Hocquenghem affair" disturbed the militant feminist and homosexual world:		Other scholars, notably Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Tim Dean, have discussed his theories and politics more generally.<ref>Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. [http://library.lol/main/98CCDF66C37761F8D489AA543FAB5433 “Anality,” in ''The Weather in Proust''] (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011). Tim Dean, [https://doi.org/10.1632/S0030812900165897 “The Antisocial Homosexual,”] ''pmla'' 121, no. 3 (2006): 826–28. For criticism of , see James Penney, [https://library.lol/main/C94FF0AB416699A626FDA8D9E305BF0E Capitalism and Schizoanalysis], in ''After Queer Theory : The Limits of Sexual Politics'' (London: Pluto, 2013).</ref> Similar to art of [[Eric Gill]] or a mural featuring [[Allen Ginsberg]], the 2020's saw Hocquenghem's legacy attacked in an attempt to [[Censorship\|censor]]/remove public mentions of his name. In August 2020, the "Hocquenghem affair" disturbed the militant feminist and homosexual world:

	<blockquote>''The evening of 30 August 2020, the cameras of RT France followed Cassiopée, a millitant from the feminist collective Les Grenades. Her act: pouring fake blood on the plaque commemorating Guy Hocquenghem affixed at the base of a building where he had lived in Paris. According to her, Hocquenghem would be found guilty of apology for pedocriminality. The city administration took its courage in both hands and stealthily removed the compromising plaque some days later without saying a word. The journalist Amaury Brelet1 was the first to relay the matter, in the reactionary journal Valeurs Actuelles.''~~</blockquote>~~<ref>[https://girlhocquenghem.neocities.org/2020/09/29/reading-hocquenghem Reading Hocquenghem], ''Trou Noir'' 28 September 2020, September issue.</ref>		<blockquote>
			''The evening of 30 August 2020, the cameras of RT France followed Cassiopée, a millitant from the feminist collective Les Grenades. Her act: pouring fake blood on the plaque commemorating Guy Hocquenghem affixed at the base of a building where he had lived in Paris. According to her, Hocquenghem would be found guilty of apology for pedocriminality. The city administration took its courage in both hands and stealthily removed the compromising plaque some days later without saying a word. The journalist Amaury Brelet1 was the first to relay the matter, in the reactionary journal Valeurs Actuelles.''<ref>[https://girlhocquenghem.neocities.org/2020/09/29/reading-hocquenghem Reading Hocquenghem], ''Trou Noir'' 28 September 2020, September issue.</ref>
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	==See also==		==See also==

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	''The child is disciplined into personhood. So what a liberation of the child actually means is the undermining of the adult/child distinction and the consequences of that for the liberation of all: 'childhood is not a fixed state which adulthood simply succeeds, but . . . there is a permanence of childhood that also concerns society in general'. ''[... They]'' seek to dislodge genital-centred sex from its privileged position. ''[... For them,]'' children should be allowed to consent, and the fact that they are not is part of their social disempowerment.'' (pp. 49-50).</blockquote>		''The child is disciplined into personhood. So what a liberation of the child actually means is the undermining of the adult/child distinction and the consequences of that for the liberation of all: 'childhood is not a fixed state which adulthood simply succeeds, but . . . there is a permanence of childhood that also concerns society in general'. ''[... They]'' seek to dislodge genital-centred sex from its privileged position. ''[... For them,]'' children should be allowed to consent, and the fact that they are not is part of their social disempowerment.'' (pp. 49-50).</blockquote>

	Other scholars, notably Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Tim Dean, have discussed his theories and politics more generally.<ref>Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. [http://library.lol/main/98CCDF66C37761F8D489AA543FAB5433 “Anality,” in ''The Weather in Proust''] (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011). Tim Dean, [https://doi.org/10.1632/S0030812900165897 “The Antisocial Homosexual,”] ''pmla'' 121, no. 3 (2006): 826–28. For criticism of , see James Penney, [https://library.lol/main/C94FF0AB416699A626FDA8D9E305BF0E Capitalism and Schizoanalysis], in ''After Queer Theory : The Limits of Sexual Politics'' (London: Pluto, 2013).</ref>		Other scholars, notably Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Tim Dean, have discussed his theories and politics more generally.<ref>Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. [http://library.lol/main/98CCDF66C37761F8D489AA543FAB5433 “Anality,” in ''The Weather in Proust''] (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011). Tim Dean, [https://doi.org/10.1632/S0030812900165897 “The Antisocial Homosexual,”] ''pmla'' 121, no. 3 (2006): 826–28. For criticism of , see James Penney, [https://library.lol/main/C94FF0AB416699A626FDA8D9E305BF0E Capitalism and Schizoanalysis], in ''After Queer Theory : The Limits of Sexual Politics'' (London: Pluto, 2013).</ref> Similar to art of [[Eric Gill]] or a mural featuring [[Allen Ginsberg]], the 2020's saw Hocquenghem's legacy attacked in an attempt to [[Censorship\|censor]]/remove public mentions of his name. In August 2020, the "Hocquenghem affair" disturbed the militant feminist and homosexual world:

			<blockquote>''The evening of 30 August 2020, the cameras of RT France followed Cassiopée, a millitant from the feminist collective Les Grenades. Her act: pouring fake blood on the plaque commemorating Guy Hocquenghem affixed at the base of a building where he had lived in Paris. According to her, Hocquenghem would be found guilty of apology for pedocriminality. The city administration took its courage in both hands and stealthily removed the compromising plaque some days later without saying a word. The journalist Amaury Brelet1 was the first to relay the matter, in the reactionary journal Valeurs Actuelles.''</blockquote><ref>[https://girlhocquenghem.neocities.org/2020/09/29/reading-hocquenghem Reading Hocquenghem], ''Trou Noir'' 28 September 2020, September issue.</ref>

	==See also==		==See also==

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	*''Co-ire'', ''album systématique de l'enfance'' (''~~Co-anger~~: ~~systematic album of childhood~~'') (1976) examines childhood sexuality from a Marxist perspective, co-authored with professor and lover [[René Schérer]]. In English translation on library genesis.<ref>[https://library.lol/main/77A55B2917AE7FEF4B475768EAF6AFDE ''Co-ire, album systématique de l'enfance'']</ref>		*''Co-ire'', ''album systématique de l'enfance'' (''Coming and Going Together: A Systematic Childhood Album'') (1976) examines childhood sexuality from a Marxist perspective, co-authored with professor and lover [[René Schérer]]. In English translation on library genesis.<ref>[https://library.lol/main/77A55B2917AE7FEF4B475768EAF6AFDE ''Co-ire, album systématique de l'enfance'']</ref>

	*''L'Amour en relief'' (''Love in Relief'') (1982, English translation 1985) is 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 contextualizes homosexual desire as a resistance to white supremacy and racism.		*''L'Amour en relief'' (''Love in Relief'') (1982, English translation 1985) is 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 contextualizes homosexual desire as a resistance to white supremacy and racism.

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	*[[Gayle Rubin]] - American queer theory founder		*[[Gayle Rubin]] - American queer theory founder
	*[[Tony Duvert]] - Open MAP and contemporary intellectual		*[[Tony Duvert]] - Open MAP and contemporary intellectual
			*[[Gabrielle Russier]] - Contemporary teacher-student sex scandal. Of national importance during the history of the student revolution of ''May 1968'' and its aftermath.
	*[[Roger Moody]] - 1st person to come out as "paedophile" in English press.		*[[Roger Moody]] - 1st person to come out as "paedophile" in English press.
	*[[Historical examples of LGBT-MAP unity]]		*[[Historical examples of LGBT-MAP unity]]