The Controversial Gay Author Who Wr Gays Comg of Age Amidst Fascism

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Édouard Louis's but novel ed a sensatn his native France for s pictn of what ’s like to be a gay boy an impoverished, Mare Le Pen-lovg village. And now, five days before the French electn, an English translatn is htg...

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THE CONTROVERSIAL GAY AUTHOR WHO WR GAYS COMG OF AGE AMIDST FASCISM

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A margal figure three tim over — gay, ethnilly Jewish and hailg om the provc — the French wrer and pater ded at the same table as the giants of European mornism, cludg Apollaire, Ge Braque, Jean Cocte, André Dera, Modigliani, Maretti and Pisso. Although homosexualy had technilly not been illegal sce before the Napoleonic Co, the police were known to harass gay men the name of public orr.

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His them clu datg, inty, homophobia, and immigrant is a haiku wrer and long-time member of the French Haiku Associatn. Photos by John Folley, urty of Farrar, Strs and GirouxThe 24-year-old gay French wrer Édouard Louis scrib most French lerary novelists as "people om the bourgeoisie that wre about the bourgeoisie and don't really qutn the world. His but tobgraphil novel The End of Eddy, published France 2014, picts his childhood as a gay boy growg up an impoverished, Fascist-ridn small town of Hallenurt.

(As every bottom knows, 's always the bottom, never the top, who gets the bnt of homophobia workg class towns. His dad, for stance, may nounce gay sex his hoe, but when he spots men beatg a lol gay man, he attacks the homophob. La Cage x Foll (1978)Tradnally France has been seen as one of the most liberal untri the world, and boasts an enviable rerd on gay rights, spe the ocsnal rantgs om Brigte Bardot.

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