Gai Pied after ten years: a commercial success, a moral bankruptcy?

In this article, Jan Willem Duyvendak and Mattias Duyves describe and analyze the development of France's most important gay magazine: Gai Pied. They discuss the development of this weekly publication in relation to changes that have taken place in the French homosexual movement and the broader political context in the intervening years. Gai Pied was the most successful innovation of the gay movement in France at the end of the seventies. Indeed, in contemporary France the gay press seems to be the only substantial organized gay "movement" outside the AIDS network. Duyvendak and Duyves ask the question whether the price Gai Pied has paid for becoming so centralized and dominant (more commercialized and less challenging to the readers) has been too high.