... the culmination of almost fifty years of sexual politics. To answer this question, the essay returns Guy Hocquenghem’s seminal 1972 text Homosexual Desire to consider the latent friction between sexual and politics that Hocquenghem identifies and that continues to characterize our contemporary moment...

... denunciations of Maoism (or “conversion narratives,” as Guy Hocquenghem described them62) were a symptom of antitotalitarianism, the new philosophy that many former leftist intel- lectuals came to embrace in response to the PCF’s political decisions, to the controversial and much-­discussed publication...