Pierre Guénin
Pierre Guénin | |
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Born | Étampes, France | 19 February 1927
Died | 1 March 2017 Paris, France | (aged 90)
Occupation | Journalist |
Pierre Guénin (19 February 1927 – 1 March 2017) was a French journalist and gay rights activist. He was an early publisher of LGBT magazines in the late 1960s and the 1970s, and the founder of the LGBT film awards in France. He was the founder of the eponymous Prix Pierre Guénin for LGBT activists.
Early life[]
Pierre Guénin was born in Étampes, France on 19 February 1927.[1]
Career[]
Guénin was a journalist for , a magazine about cinema.[2][3][4]
Guénin founded Editions S.A.N., a publisher of LGBT magazines, in 1967.[1] He was the founding editor of Eden and Olympe, whose circulations were forbidden under President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in 1978.[3][4] He subsequently founded In and Jean-Paul.[2][3]
Guénin founded the Prix Off, the first awards for LGBT films in France, in 1978.[1][2][3] In 2009, he founded the Prix Pierre Guénin, an annual prize for LGBT activists.[1][2]
Guénin was the author of several books.[1]
Death[]
Guénin died on 1 March 2017 in Paris at the age of 90.[1][2][3]
Works[]
- Guénin, Pierre (1961). Le jeu de la vérité. Paris: Terrain vague. OCLC 902281821.
- Guénin, Pierre (1975). Le sexe a trois faces. Paris: S.A.N. OCLC 144695216.
- Guénin, Pierre (1984). Le guide du futur. Paris: Le Cherche midi. ISBN 9782862740584. OCLC 14212796.
- Guénin, Pierre (1990). La mort d'un ami : journal intime. Paris: Le Milieu du jour. ISBN 9782863662397. OCLC 463117001.
- Guénin, Pierre (2006). La gay révolution: 1920-2006. Paris: Cosmo. ISBN 9782916028033. OCLC 863307505.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Héraud, Xavier (1 March 2017). "Décès de Pierre Guénin, figure de la presse gay française". Yagg. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Pierre Guénin, figure de la presse gay, est mort". Libération. 1 March 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "L'éditeur et militant LGBT Pierre Guénin est mort". Livres-Hebdo. 1 March 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Le Talec, Jean-Yves (2008). Folles de France : repenser l'homosexualité masculine. Paris: La Découverte. pp. 206–235. ISBN 9782707152572. OCLC 221864036 – via Cairn.info.
- 1927 births
- 2017 deaths
- People from Étampes
- 20th-century French journalists
- French non-fiction writers
- 20th-century French novelists
- 20th-century French dramatists and playwrights
- LGBT rights activists from France
- LGBT writers from France
- Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- French non-fiction writer stubs