List of Maps vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Globalization and the French (Gay) Resistance 1
The French Homosexual Citizen 1
Globalization, Americanization, and the French (Gay) Resistance 3
(Sexual) Citizenship, Difference, and (Gay) Language in France 11
Chapter Outline 26
PART 1 THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS
1 An Assault on French Gay Culture 31
An (American) English Presence in the French Gay Press 31
Being “Gay” in French Culture 33
Vague English Creole: Lexical Evidence of an English Presence 35
Cooperative Discourse in Têtu 38
Locating French (Gay) Identity: Global and Local Forces at Work 44
Cooperative French Discourse in Têtu 45
Cooperative Discourse and Republican-Based Language of
French Sexual Citizenship 50
2 The Next Gene(t)ration: “Genet” as an Authentic Model for
Queer French 53
Authenticity, Cultural Genuineness, and Language 55
“Genet” as an Archetype or Authentic Speaker of Queer French 58
Genet’s Authentic Queer French Voice in Contemporary French
Popular Culture 66
Genet’s Continued Influence on French Sexual Citizenship 78
PART 2 EVERYDAY EXPRESSIONS
3 French Articulations of the Closet and Coming Out 85
Recent Scholarship on Coming Out and the Closet 87
The Coming-Out Interview: Methodology and Recruitment 92
French Images of Concealment: Resistance to “The Closet”
and “The Desert” 94
French Images of Disclosure: “Faire le coming out” and
“s’assumer” 107
The French Republic and the Missing Homosexual Closet 114
4 “S’assumer dans la famille”: Coming out in the French
(Republican) Family 117
The French Family, Symbolic Order, and Sex Talk 120
Interpersonal and Elliptical Narratives of Sexual Disclosure 125
L’Affaire du Loft: (Not) Coming Out on French Reality Television 139
In Search of Visible and Democratic Models of Citizenship 145
5 Gay Paris: Language, Sexuality, and Space in the
French Capital 149
Theorizing the Global City, Citizenship, and (Homo) Sexuality 149
Situating Gay Paris in Historical and Contemporary Contexts 155
A Map Analysis of French Gay City 159
Paris’ Gay Center: Global and Local Tensions 164
Lesbians, Sexuality, and the City 169
Movement Across the City: Examples of Transgression
and Integration 175
French-Arab (Beur) Experience: An Exceptional Model
of Integration 184
Spatial Claims to French (Sexual) Citizenship 190
Conclusion: A Queer French Model for the 21st Century 193
Appendix Interview Questions 197
Bibliography 201
Index 217
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