(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #240 - Classic subversion: Daniel Gu?rin, "Homosexuality and Revolution" (fr, pt)

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