Living in Arcadia

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Cambridge to Paris, 1978

“The French Exception”: Gay Historiography in France

Arcadie: The Unknown Story

Rethinking Arcadie

Part One. The Background 

1. Homosexuality in France from the Revolution to Vichy

Homosexuality and the Revolution

Regulating Sexual Disorder in the Nineteenth Century

French Variations

Paris as Sodom

Homosexuality in Belle-Époque Paris

The Interwar Years: Talking about Homosexuality

2. The Shadow of the Occupation, 1942–1955

1940: Blame It on Gide

Fascinating Fascism: Sleeping with the Enemy 

Liberation: “Beautiful Babies” and Unruly Youths 

Moral Order

Freedom in Clandestinity: The “Civilization of the Pissotières”

Fighting the Puritans: Futur 

Part Two. Et in Arcadia Ego, 1954–1968

3. Beginnings, 1954–1956

Losing a Vocation, 1922–1945

Finding a Vocation, 1946–1952

Young Man in a Hurry, 1953

Recruiting Support: Treason of the Clerks, 1954

Teething Troubles I: Quarrel with Amsterdam, 1955–1956

Teething Troubles II: “A Danger to Youth,” 1955–1956

4. Survival, 1956–1968

Living in the Catacombs, 1956–1957

Putting Down Roots, 1957–1959

A New Recruit: Daniel Guérin

“Social Scourge,” 1960

Arcadie Embattled, 1960–1964

Arcadie Becalmed, 1964–1968

5. The Vision of Arcadie: Homosexuality and Ethics     

 The Homophile International               

 Escaping the Shadow of Gide 

 Science and History    

 “Permanent and Diffuse Revolution”    

 The Politics of Dignity 

 Ethics and Authenticity: Assuming One’s Condition      

 The Secret Garden     

6. Living in Arcadie

A Spiritual Family        

Finding Arcadie           

Arriving at Arcadie      

The Provincial Desert               

Building a Library I      

Building a Library II                 

The Club         

“La Bonne Parole” I: Preaching the Arcadian Life         

“La Bonne Parole” II: Living the Arcadian Life 

Part Three. Arcadie Contested, 1968–1982 

7. The Deluge, 1968–1972      

Sexual Revolutions       

1968: The Revolution and Sex 

Monks in the Dark Ages?        

“Homosexuality, This Painful Problem” 

The Rise and Fall of FHAR      

The “Toads of Arcadie”           

8. The Arcadie Years, 1973–1978      

Recognition at Last      

The “Arcadian People”

Competitors I: The Sex Explosion        

Competitors II: The Political Explosion 

The

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• History: European History

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