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Arcadie
The Association Arcadie, or simply Arcadie, was a French homophile movement, homophile organization established in the early 1950s by André Baudry, an ex-seminarian and philosophy professor.Neil Miller (writer), Miller, Neil. Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present. New York: Vintage Books, c1995, p. 392 From its creation in the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s, Arcadie played a dominant role in the lives of French homosexuals as both a political and a social organization. Founding The Association Arcadie was founded in 1954 as the first LGBT history in France, homophile group in French history. The goal of the organization was "to present homosexuals as respectable, cultured, and dignified individuals deserving of greater social tolerance". The Arcadie association also aimed to "educate adult homophiles, who, too weak and lacking knowledge, could not on their own live with dignity" through social activities and through its publication, ''Revue Arcadie''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Baudry
André Baudry (31 August 1922 – 1 February 2018) was a French writer who was the founder of the homophile review ''Arcadie (French homophile organization)#Literary review, Arcadie''. A former seminarian and philosophy professor, Baudry became interested in the debate about sexuality following the publication of the Kinsey report in 1948, the ''Le Deuxième Sexe, Deuxième Sexe'' by Simone de Beauvoir en 1952, and the theology thesis of the same year entitled ''Vie Chrétienne et problèmes de la sexualité'' by Marc Oraison. This thesis, which clearly articulated the position for the Catholic Church to take a more inclusive attitude towards homosexuality, was blacklisted by the Church. The ''Arcadie'' review was created by André Baudry with the support of Roger Peyrefitte and Jean Cocteau. It was immediately forbidden for sale to minors and was censured. André Baudry was prosecuted in 1955 for "outrage aux bonnes mœurs" (outrage against good morals), convicted, and fined 400 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LGBT History In France
This article is about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) history in France. Prehistory Around the end of Paleolithic, humanity started to make artifacts which suggest an appreciation of homosexual eroticism. Some examples, like graffiti, can be seen in some cave and hundreds of buildings and phallic statues and also a carved double dildo, seen as evidence for female masturbation found at ''Gorge d'Enfere'', France. Prior to 1600 Around 1100 AD, Ivo of Chartres tried to convince Pope Urban II about what he perceived to be the negative effects of homosexuality on society. Ivo accused Raoul II, archbishop of Tours, of convincing the King of France, Philippe I, to appoint a certain Jean as bishop of Orléans. Jean was well known as Raoul's lover and had relations with the king himself, a fact of which the king openly boasted. However, Pope Urban did not believe this to be true, disregarding the accusation. Jean ruled as bishop for almost forty years, and R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Miller (writer)
Neil Miller (born 1945) is an American journalist and nonfiction writer, best known for his books on LGBTQ history and culture. His writing career started in 1975 and ranged through at least 2010. Two of his six books won Lambda Literary Awards. Life Miller was born in Kingston, New York in 1945 and graduated from Kingston High School and Brown University. He was the news editor of the '' Gay Community News'', the first weekly gay and lesbian newspaper in the United States, from 1975 to 1978, and also served as the paper's features and managing editor. He worked as a staff writer at the ''Boston Phoenix'' in the early 1980s. Writing Miller's most acclaimed book, '' In Search of Gay America'', published in 1989, was the first book to examine gay and lesbian life outside the large metropolitan areas. Miller's subjects include the openly gay mayor of a small Missouri town, gay dairy farmers in Minnesota, a lesbian coal miner in West Virginia, and gay Native Americans in South Dako ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau ( , ; ; 5 July 1889 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost avant-garde artists of the 20th-century and hugely influential on the surrealist and Dadaist movements, among others. The National Observer (United States), ''National Observer'' suggested that "of the artistic generation whose daring gave birth to Twentieth Century Art, Cocteau came closest to being a Renaissance man". He is best known for his novels (1923), (1928), and (1929); the stage plays (1930), (1934), (1938), (1941), and (1946); and the films ''The Blood of a Poet'' (1930), (1948), ''Beauty and the Beast (1946 film), Beauty and the Beast'' (1946), ''Orpheus (film), Orpheus'' (1950), and ''Testament of Orpheus'' (1960), which alongside ''Blood of a Poet'' and ''Orpheus'' constitute the so-called Orphic Trilogy. He was described as "one of [the] avant-gard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Benbassa
Esther Benbassa-Dudonney (; born 27 March 1950) is a Turkish-Israeli-French historian and politician. She specializes in the history of Jews and other minorities. Between 2011 and 2023, Benbassa served as a French senator, representing Paris (2017–2023) and Val-de-Marne (2011–2017). Benbassa is an independent. She was previously a member of Europe Ecology – The Greens, but was expelled from its parliamentary group in September 2021 following allegations of psychological workplace bullying by her former parliamentary assistants. This prompted her to leave the party altogether shortly after. Early life and education Esther Benbassa was born on 27 March 1950 in Istanbul, Turkey. She is the descendant of a family of Jews expelled from Spain in 1492, emigrating to the Ottoman Empire. After attending primary school at the Isik School and the Sainte-Pulcherie ''lycée'' in Istanbul, Benbassa and her family emigrated to Israel when she was 15. There, she studied at the French- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornell University Library
The Cornell University Library is the library system of Cornell University. As of 2014, it holds over eight million printed volumes and over a million ebooks. More than 90 percent of its current 120,000 Periodical literature, periodical titles are available online. It has 8.5 million microfilms and microfiches, more than of manuscripts, and close to 500,000 other materials, including film, motion pictures, DVDs, sound recording and reproduction, sound recordings, and computer files, extensive Digital data, digital resources, and the University Archives. It is the 16th-largest library in North America, ranked by number of volumes held, and the 13th-largest research library in the U.S. by both titles and volumes held. Structure The library is administered as an academic division; the University Librarian reports to the university provost (education), provost. The holdings are managed by the Library's subdivisions, which include 16 physical and virtual libraries on the main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LGBTQ Political Advocacy Groups In France
LGBTQ people are individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning. Many variants of the initialism are used; LGBTQIA+ people incorporates intersex, asexual, aromantic, agender, and other individuals. The group is generally conceived as broadly encompassing all individuals who are part of a sexual or gender minority, including all sexual orientations, romantic orientations, gender identities, and sex characteristics that are not heterosexual, heteroromantic, cisgender, or endosex, respectively. Scope and terminology A broad array of sexual and gender minority identities are usually included in who is considered LGBTQ. The term ''gender, sexual, and romantic minorities'' is sometimes used as an alternative umbrella term for this group. Groups that make up the larger group of LGBTQ people include: * People with a sexual orientation that is non-heterosexual, including lesbians, gay men, bisexual people, and asexual people * People who are trans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
