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DIDIER ERIBON, WRER: ‘WHAT WAS DIFFICULT WAS NOT BEG GAY BUT BEG WORKG-CLASS’

La sortie ce livre t un événement étrange : la réédn d'un texte déjà classique dans un domae qui semble enre émergent. Philosophe et soclogue, Didier Éribon a notamment participé à l'troductn s étus gays et lbienn et s théori queer en France. L Réflexns sur la qutn gay, publié pour la première fois en 1999, nstuent jourd'hui l'un s text fondatrs s étus anphon sur « l homosexualés ». Il a asi participé développement s re... * didier eribon gay *

When Didier Eribon ped the homophobia and sual racism of an impoverished life on a hog tate northern France and arrived Paris 1964, he me out of one closet and went to another. It was much easier to tell his clever, smopolan new iends that he was gay than to adm to beg workg-class.

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“My g out of the sexual closet, my sire to assume and assert my homosexualy, cid … wh my shuttg myself up si what I might ll a class closet, ” he wr his crilly acclaimed btseller Returng to Reims, published the UK next ’s name is ltle known Bra outsi tellectual circl, particular Kg’s College Cambridge, where he has been a visg fellow.

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Until recently, he was bt known France for his bgraphy of the philosopher and social theorist Michel Fouult, and for his wrg on gay male inty. The central them echo those The End of Eddy, Édouard Louis’s 2014 tobgraphil novel about growg up gay and poor a solate post-dtrial town northern France, which is dited to Eribon.

”His book reunts how, after s Paris, the by now succsful, renowned and openly gay Eribon feels ught between class, still ashamed of his roots but still silently seethg when one of his tellectual and social peers is nscendg or sultg about the workg class.

“What was difficult was not beg gay but beg workg-class, ” he says. Reims, he wr, is a “town of sults”, those spected of beg gay are “faggots” and “nancy boys”.

INSULT AND THE MAKG OF THE GAY SELF

It seems that he n help to expla the cle of the left and provi sights to the impoverished, homophobic i, which he grew up .

Eribon grew up a homophobic environment and scrib tail what means to be a gay adolcent proletarian, ral France.

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After sharp criqu – such as those by Luc Boltanski (2011), Jacqu Rancière (2012), and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1988) – the bate about the victims of social power stctur has changed.

Like Eribon, he is gay, grew up the untrysi, and a homophobic, vlent environment. Only when his father, whom he scrib as aggrsive, vlent, and openly homophobic, di, do he return to viss his mother. Here, Eribon giv sights to the hardships of a young man disverg that he is attracted to men; an environment which “real masculy” is monstrated by open ntempt for gay men.

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Eribon scrib his fears of beg intified as gay; he scrib how he approached the gay scene – always fear of beg regnized by lleagu or acquatanc, always on guard agast groups of young people huntg for gays public parks.

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Sourc of Vulnerabily: Social Class and Sexual IntyWe therefore intify two sourc of vulnerabily Didier Eribon’s bgraphy: his class background on the one hand, makg him an outsir the predomately bourgeois school, and his sexual sire on the other hand, makg him an outsir the homophobic environment he liv .

Even though the disda of his bourgeois peers might be nveyed ls blatantly than that of his homophobic fay, he is still subtly ma aware that he do not belong. We have already mentned that he grew up an environment full of ntempt for all homosexual practic. And often do not stop at beg a threat of vlence: gays and lbians who e out mt actually expect beg victims of physil vlence – not only the untrysi and the suburbs, but also bigger ci.

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