Guy Hocquenghem’s Ève: Global and Personal Chaos During the AIDS Crisis

Guy Hocquenghem. A name that certainly isn’t as familiar as Michel Foucault’s or Judith Butler’s, but that ought to be. Once a prominent activist and writer on the frontlines of queer liberation during and after the 1968 student uprisings in France, today he is a far more obscure figure. There are, of course, a few reasons for this. His disillusion and subsequent quarrels with French leftist figures and organizations meant that he remained a somewhat ostracized French intellectual. Nonetheless, his output is still remarkable. His most famous and most translated work by far is The Homosexual Desire (published 1972), an essay that analyzes gay oppression along materialist lines, psychoanalysis, and even discusses identity politics. Other notable works include La Beauté du métis (1979), an essay that explores French anti-Arab racism, L’Amour en relief (1982), a novel from the point of view of a Tunisian blind boy finds ways in which pleasure defies racism and state oppression, and Ève (1987), a novel published shortly before his death with autobiographical echoes talking, among other things, about his declining health after being diagnosed as HIV positive. <a href="https://frenchlitforall.medium.com/guy-hocquenghems-%C3%A8ve-global-and-personal-chaos-during-the-aids-crisis-e1b074950102">Click Here</a>