Living in Arcadia: Homosexuality, Politics, and Morality in France from the Liberation to AIDS

by Julian T. Jackson

In Paris in 1954, a young man named Andr Baudry founded Arcadie, an organization for "homophiles" that would become the largest of its kind that has ever existed in France, lasting nearly thirty years. In addition to acting as the only public voice for French gays prior to the explosion of radicalism of 1968, Arcadie--with its club and review--was a social and intellectual hub, attracting support from individuals as diverse as Jean Cocteau and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226389251
• ISBN13: 9780226389257
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"