Faggot Forefathers Week Fifty-One

“Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it’s also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.”

Jean Genet

    (December 19, 1910 – 1986)

    Sign: Sagittarius

Infamous homosexual French writer beloved by gay novelists and queer theorists for his works like Our Lady of the Flowers (1943) and plays like The Balcony (1955-7), which explore various dark themes in regards to homosexuality, such as violence, betrayal, scatology, Nazism, Catholicism, murder, prison love, and hebephilia.

“Faggot Forefathers” is a weekly series highlighting the lives of historically significant gay men and their contributions to our world. 

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