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The Revolution of Desire Screenings and Performances

Please join us in celebrating the closing of the show Screwball

Asses at the Company in Chinatown featuring artworks by Gene

Barnes AKA Portia Manson, Sheyla Baykal, Gary Lee Boas,

Robert Alan Hyde, Hedi El Kholti, Matt Fishbeck, Mark Flores,

Paul Gellman, David Jones, William E. Jones, Brian Kenny,

Slava Mogutin, and Donnie & Travis; and the upcoming release

by Semiotext(e) of Guy Hocquenghem’s pamphlet, The

Screwball Asses. Perfomances at The Company at 7:30 PM

by Tall Paul + Mare, and Alex Black + Samuel Vasquez.

Screening at the Mountain Bar at 8:30 PM of  The Revolution of Desire

by Alessandro Avellis & Gabriele Ferluga, 2006 (52 mn).

The Revolution of Desire explores the nebulous post-’68

circumstances that birthed the sexual liberation movement

in France, and interrogates its transformation from a

grassroots rebellion to an effort to normalize homosexuals.

Referencing the work of impassioned activists and intriguingly

titled essays ­ Le rapport contre la normalité (“A Report Against

Normalcy”) and Trois milliards de pervers (“Three Billion

Perverts”) ­, the film sketches the lives of Guy Hocquenghem

and Françoise d’Eaubonne, brilliant intellectuals and un-

conditional supporters of the “revolution of desire.”

We meet philosopher René Schérer, MLF photographer

Catherine Deudon, militant filmmaker Carole Roussopoulos,

Guy’s brother Joani Hocquenghem, historian Marie-Jo

Bonnet, the Panthères roses and numerous other key players.

The Revolution of Desire is a rare and valuable document

that explores the past but more importantly questions the

present.

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