To mark the publication in English of Hocquenghem’s second book, Gay Liberation After May '68 (Duke University Press), panelists will read passages from the collection of manifestos, treatises, and communiqués and discuss both the history and the possible futures of gay liberation.

Guy Hocquenghem was one of the early radical theorists of homosexuality as well as a militant who participated in the May 68 uprising in Paris and the early formation of the Front Homosexual d’Action Révolutionnaire (Homosexual Front for Revolutionary Action). Most of his writing has not been translated into English, though his ideas have still been highly influential on both queer theory and radical queer street action.

Kadji Amin is Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. He is the recipient of a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in “Sex” from the University of Pennsylvania and a Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship from Stony Brook University. His book, Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History (Duke 2017) won an Honorable Mention for best book in LGBT studies form the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association. He is currently at work on a second book on “Backwards Trans Theory.”

Max Fox is writer, editor, and translator based in Philadelphia. His translation of Guy Hocquenghem’s The Amphitheater of the Dead (Guillotine Press, 2018) was nominated for a Lamba Literary award. His writing has appeared in Bookforum, The New Republic, The Baffler, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. He edited Christopher Chitty’s posthumous Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System (Duke University Press, 2020), and served as Senior Editor at the New Inquiry. He is currently on the editorial collective of Pinko magazine. 

Scott Branson is a queer/trans writer, translator, teacher, and anarchist, living in Western North Carolina, and currently lecturer in Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at Appalachian State University. In addition to this book, they translated Jacques Lesage De La Haye’s The Abolition of Prison (AK Press, 2021). Their edited volume, Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies will be published by PM Press in October 2022, and their book, Practical Anarchism: A Daily Guide, will be published by Pluto Press in November 2022.