Books By Christian Maurel, Antoine Idier - Author

Christian Maurel (1931-2011) was active in France's Front Homosexuel d'Action Révolutionaire (Homosexual Front for Revolutionary Action) in the early-to-mid 1970s. He worked as a journalist for the Nouvel Observateur and L'Express, among other venues. In addition to poetry, he published a number of books and articles, including his notorious contribution to early queer theory, The Screwball Asses. Antoine Idier is Associate Professor in Political Science at Sciences-Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye. He is the author of several publications on sexuality, politics, the history of ideas, contemporary visual art, and literature. Among other works, he has written a biography of the French queer theoretician and activist Guy Hocquenghem, and several books on LGBTQ archives, on the history of French LGBT movements, and on the visual artist Michel Journiac. In 2019 he was awarded a Archives Research Residency Fellowship by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.