Homosexual Dire [Guy Hocquenghem and Daniella Dangoor]. Origally published 1972 France, Guy Hocquenghem's Homosexual Dire has bee a classic gay theory. Translated to English for the first time 1978 and out of prt sce the ea
Contents:
WHY SOME STRAIGHT PEOPLE MIGHT HAVE GAY SEX
Anti-Homosexual Paranoia 55"Unnatural acts": nature and the law 61A myth: the progrs of public morals 62The strengtheng of anti-homosexual paranoia 66Homosexualy and crime 67Homosexualy and disease 69"Latent" and "patent" homosexualy 723.
"Disgtg perverts" 73The polymorpholy perverse, bisexualy, and non-human sex 74Hatred of woman 77The Oedipalisatn of homosexualy 79Castratn and narcissism 79Oedip or the chromosom?
82The homosexual judge 83Cure: the fernal cycle 86Homosexualy and shame 884.
HOW TO GET A MAN (FOR GAY MEN)
Capalism, the Fay, and the An 93The phallic signifier and the sublimated an 95Homosexualy and the an 97Homosexualy and the loss of inty 100The petive society and the le of the phall 103Oedipal reproductn and homosexualy 106Homosexual groupg 1105. Homosexual "object-choice" and Homosexual "Behavur" 113The "object-choice" 114The "third sex" and "mascule-feme" 121Masochism and homosexualy 127The pick-up mache 1306. Origally published 1972 France, Guy Hocquenghem's Homosexual Dire has bee a classic gay theory.
Integratg psychoanalytic and Marxist theory, this book scrib the social and psychic dynamics of what has e to be lled homophobia and on how the "homosexual" as social beg has e to be nstuted palist society. Signifint as one of the earlit products of the ternatnal gay liberatn movement, Hocquenghem's work was fluenced by the extraordary energi unleashed by the polil upheavals of both the Paris "May Days" of 1968 and the gay and lbian polil rebellns that occurred ci around the world the wake of New York's Stonewall rts of June 1969. Drawg on the theoretil work of Gill Delze and Félix Guattari and on the shatterg effects of numerable gay "gs-out," Hocquenghem criqued the fluential mols of the psyche and sexual sire rived om Lan and Frd.
The thor also addrsed the relatn of palism to sexuali, the dynamics of anal sire, and the polil effects of gay group-inti. Two s after s appearance, Homosexual Dire remas an exhilaratg analysis of palist societi' pervasive fascatn wh, and vlent fear of, same-sex sire and addrs issu that ntue to be highly charged and productive on for queer polics.