Luttes LGBT+ : les archives comme puissance de mobilisation contre les discriminations

Around the recent publication of Archives of LGBT+ movements, a history of struggles from 1890 to the present day , edited by Antoine Idier , Textuel, 2024.

“To seize the archives is to refuse to leave to others the epistemological privilege of writing history; it is to stand up against dispossession,” writes sociologist Antoine Idier. To “seize” them means, without fetishizing or aestheticizing them, to question them tirelessly, to “make them work.” For what purpose? To develop knowledge of the history of LGBT+ struggles, but also to understand the progress that remains to be made despite the societal advances of recent decades.

In the presence of the author and editor of the book , Bruno Perreau, political scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States), and Florence Tamagne , historian, University of Lille, curator of the exhibition Homosexuals and Lesbians in Nazi Europe (Shoah Memorial 2021-2022).

In conversation with Bertrand Richard , author and publisher.

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