EXTRA: It is Forbidden to Forbid: The liberation of desire in France after May 1968

One of the more intriguing - and most Lacanian - slogans that appeared in Paris in May 1968 declared 'Il est interdit d'interdire' - 'It is forbidden to forbid'. In this follow-up to our recent Resonance 104.4fm show about the insurrections, Juliet Jacques talks to curator/writer Paul Clinton about his 'Forbidden to Forbid' exhibition, how May '68 launched a decade of queer radicalism, the tensions within its gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender elements, and its eventual collapse amidst the HIV/AIDS crisis and the decline of the wider French left. SELECTED REFERENCES MICHEL FOUCAULT, History of Sexuality vols. I-IV (1976-84) GUY HOCQUENGHEM, Homosexual Desire (1972) - https://libcom.org/files/Hocquenghem%20-%20Homosexual%20Desire.pdf Ixe (dir. Lionel Soukaz, 1980) - http://ubu.com/film/soukaz_ixe.html PIERRE KLOSSOWSKI, La Monnaie vivante (1970) - https://frieze.com/article/illicit-trade Race d'Ep (dir. Lionel Soukaz & Guy Hocquenghem, 1979) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJvcrubBS5g Oreet Ashery - 'Party for Freedom' (performance/film) - https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/interviews/oreet-ashery_s-party-for-freedom Djuna Barnes Roland Barthes Georges Bataille André Baudry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Baudry Bazooka (punk graphic design group) - http://www.bazookadesign.com/en/ JULIAN BOURG, From Revolution to Ethics: May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought (2007) - https://networks.h-net.org/node/6873/reviews/7477/swoboda-bourg-revolution-ethics-may-1968-and-contemporary-french-thought CLAUDE CAHUN, Disavowals (1930) - http://quarterlyconversation.com/claude-cahun-disavowals RENAUD CAMUS, The Great Replacement (2008) - https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12604/renaud-camus-interview RENAUS CAMUS, Tricks: 25 Encounters (1979) - https://frieze.com/article/tricks Jean Cocteau Colette Beth Collar COPI, Eva Perón - https://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/music-and-performance/2012/04/parodying-eva-per%C3%B3n Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari Guillaume Dustan - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1363460715569138 Tony Duvert - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=37 Front for Revolutionary Homosexual Action (FHAR) - http://www.notbored.org/caress-yourself.html Jean Genet - http://ubu.com/film/genet.html Genet parle d'Angela Davis (dir. Carole Roussopoulos, 1970) ANDRÉ GIDE, Corydon (1920) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corydon_(book) Michel Houellebecq MARCEL JOUHANDEAU, De l'abjection (1939) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Jouhandeau Jacques Lacan JEAN-FRANÇOIS LYOTARD, Libidinal Economy (1974) - https://monoskop.org/images/c/c4/Lyotard_Jean-Francois_Libidinal_Economy.pdf Herbert Marcuse Pierre Molinier - http://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/8019/the-forbidden-photo-collages-of-pierre-molinier Panic movement: Fernando Arrabal, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Roland Topor Marcel Proust Wilhelm Reich ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET, A Sentimental Novel (2007) - http://www.musicandliterature.org/reviews/2014/4/29/alain-robbe-grillets-a-sentimental-novel ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET, Le voyeur (1955) - https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2819/alain-robbe-grillet-the-art-of-fiction-no-91-alain-robbe-grillet Giles Round RENÉ SCHÉRER, Émile perverti (1974) - http://www.ina.fr/video/I14036845 Gertrude Stein Surrealist authors: André Breton, René Crevel, Benjamin Péret, Jacques Prévert, Raymond Queneau