GayKitschCamp

GayKitschCamp came to life as a distributor of LGBT pamphlets but quickly made a name for itself salvaging relevant (but often unremembered) gems from the recesses of literary history. In 1989, celebrating the bicentenary of the French Revolution, the collective unearthed Les Enfants de Sodome à l’Assemblée nationale, a pamphlet published in 1791. In 2022, Nicole Greta Albert and Patrick Cardon revived Akademos (1909), the first journal in France dedicated to homosexual subculture. And this year, thanks to Christine Duthoit, readers can rediscover L’Affaire Deschauffours (1725); Épingle de femme sous le bonnet viril (17th c.), edited by Pierrick Rivet; and Alain Rox’s Tu seras seul (1936), edited by Jean-Marc Barféty, who continues his forays into the history of the Parisian LGBT-scene. All in all, more than a hundred titles have been reissued.