Guy Hocquenghem (1944-1988) taught philosophy at the University of Vincennes, Paris. He was the author of numerous novels, works of theory, and was a staff writer for the French publication LibÉration. He was a founding member of le Front Homosexuel d'Action RÉvolutionnaire (F.H.A.R.). Hocquenghem died of an AIDS-related illness in 1988.

"Homosexual Desire represents the best of left social theory of sexual politics, a tradition that has never had an adequate reception in the United States. Reprinting this book now is a step toward recovering that tradition, and could therefore open debates about the significance of sexuality."-Michael Warner "Written over two decades ago, in the aftermath of May '68 and Stonewall, Hocquenghem's Homosexual Desire may well be the first example of what we now call queer theory. But its significance is more than historical: it remains an indispensable analysis of, and polemic against, institutionalized homophobia.”-Douglas Crimp

• New Introduction / Michael Moon 9Preface to the 1978 Edition / Jeffrey Weeks 231. Introduction 492. Anti-Homosexual Paranoia 55"Unnatural acts": nature and the law 61A myth: the progress of public morals 62The strengthening of anti-homosexual paranoia 66Homosexuality and crime 67Homosexuality and disease 69"Latent" and "patent" homosexuality 723. "Disgusting perverts" 73The polymorphously perverse, bisexuality, and non-human sex 74Hatred of woman 77The Oedipalisation of homosexuality 79Castration and narcissism 79Oedipus or the chromosomes? 82The homosexual judge 83Cure: the infernal cycle 86Homosexuality and shame 884. Capitalism, the Family, and the Anus 93The phallic signifier and the sublimated anus 95Homosexuality and the anus 97Homosexuality and the loss of identity 100The competitive society and the rule of the phallus 103Oedipal reproduction and homosexuality 106Homosexual grouping 1105. Homosexual "object-choice" and Homosexual "Behaviour" 113The "object-choice" 114The "third sex" and "masculine-feminine" 121Masochism and homosexuality 127The pick-up machine 1306. The Homosexual Struggle 133The revolution of desire 133Why homosexuality? 138The perverse trap 142Against the pyramid 1457. Conclusion 148Notes 151Index 155

Guy Hocquenghem (1944-1988) taught philosophy at the University of Vincennes, Paris. He was the author of numerous novels, works of theory, and was a staff writer for the French publication LibÉration. He was a founding member of le Front Homosexuel d'Action RÉvolutionnaire (F.H.A.R.). Hocquenghem died of an AIDS-related illness in 1988.

"Homosexual Desire represents the best of left social theory of sexual politics, a tradition that has never had an adequate reception in the United States. Reprinting this book now is a step toward recovering that tradition, and could therefore open debates about the significance of sexuality."-Michael Warner "Written over two decades ago, in the aftermath of May '68 and Stonewall, Hocquenghem's Homosexual Desire may well be the first example of what we now call queer theory. But its significance is more than historical: it remains an indispensable analysis of, and polemic against, institutionalized homophobia.”-Douglas Crimp

• New Introduction / Michael Moon 9Preface to the 1978 Edition / Jeffrey Weeks 231. Introduction 492. Anti-Homosexual Paranoia 55"Unnatural acts": nature and the law 61A myth: the progress of public morals 62The strengthening of anti-homosexual paranoia 66Homosexuality and crime 67Homosexuality and disease 69"Latent" and "patent" homosexuality 723. "Disgusting perverts" 73The polymorphously perverse, bisexuality, and non-human sex 74Hatred of woman 77The Oedipalisation of homosexuality 79Castration and narcissism 79Oedipus or the chromosomes? 82The homosexual judge 83Cure: the infernal cycle 86Homosexuality and shame 884. Capitalism, the Family, and the Anus 93The phallic signifier and the sublimated anus 95Homosexuality and the anus 97Homosexuality and the loss of identity 100The competitive society and the rule of the phallus 103Oedipal reproduction and homosexuality 106Homosexual grouping 1105. Homosexual "object-choice" and Homosexual "Behaviour" 113The "object-choice" 114The "third sex" and "masculine-feminine" 121Masochism and homosexuality 127The pick-up machine 1306. The Homosexual Struggle 133The revolution of desire 133Why homosexuality? 138The perverse trap 142Against the pyramid 1457. Conclusion 148Notes 151Index 155