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Guy Hocquenghem

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Guy Hocquenghem (1944-1988) taught philosophy at the University of Vincennes, Paris. He was the author of numerous novels and works of theory, and was the staff writer for the French publication, Libération. He was a founding member of the Front Homosexuel d'Action Révolutionnaire (FHAR). Hocquenghem died of an AIDS-related illness in 1988.

First published in France in 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 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.

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