Central subject of his last writings, Daniel Gu?rin has always linked his bisexuality to
his militant commitment. His revolt stemming from intolerance of homosexuality has led to
a revolt against society as a whole: "The revolt is the primary school of the revolution".
---- From the age of 15, his sexuality is constructed by an attraction towards men, and
especially young proles, while itself is derived from the high bourgeoisie. He warns
against its critics: it did not become revolutionary because he slept with workers but
explains that this combination has allowed him to embrace their cause really striking what
the injustice of class society. In class warfare, says Gu?rin have changed sides in
contact with his friends and sometimes lovers.
This link subtly Gu?rin between homosexuality and revolution is brought remarkably. Based
on the Kinsey report, Guerin demonstrates firstly that there are no monolithic sexuality
only heterosexual or homosexual, but a multitude of sexualities ranging from one to the other.
Capitalism built family value through bourgeois morality to reproduce the labor force. The
yoke of domestic values, creating a division of genres, subjects the woman to the man,
crushing the sexuality of each. It can only be overcome by a revolution changing the
society in its entirety. Patriarchy, racial prejudice as homophobic prejudice will
disappear only with an anti-authoritarian social revolution. This is supported by
historical examples. During the Russian Revolution, and until the collapse of the Soviets
by the Bolsheviks, women were considered equal to men in the struggle for the emancipation
of the people, and homosexuality was definitely not stigmatized.
After analyzing the link between homosexuality and Revolution, Guerin talks about the
struggle for the emancipation of homosexuals born in the years after May 68, and on the
prospects of these movements. He cites homosexual Front revolutionary action (FHAR) and
the Policy Group and gay liberation newspaper (GLHPQ). However Gu?rin expresses its
concern about the future of these struggles. He dreads marketing, ghettoisation and
bigotry of the homosexual movement "which goes against the sense of social
decompartmentalisation of bisexual universality" . Daniel Gu?rin, visionary, already
perceives that AIDS will be exploited to revive homophobic prejudice. He says "a brutal
flashback could replace the current permissiveness, and all the more easily that this
decline is accompanied politically by a resurgence of the extreme right" . Written in
1983, these words are more relevant than ever.
Flo (AL Montpellier)
Daniel Gu?rin, Homosexuality and Revolution , Friends of Spartacus, 2013, 80 p., 9 euros
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