Exhibition guide
During Pride Month, we are offering you an exhibition of plates taken from the book "Queer Resistances - A History of LGBTQI+ Cultures", co-written by the designer Pochep and the sociologist Antoine Idier.
Visit details
- Dates: From Monday June 1, 2026 to Tuesday June 30, 2026:
- Venue: Bibliothèque Buffon, 15 Bis rue Buffon, Paris
- Price: free
- Audience: Public jeunes et adultes.
- Source: Event page
About the exhibition
This story traces the “birth” of homosexuality at the end of the 19th century, then the development of specific behaviors and identities, names, places and codes. Literature, song and culture prove to be spaces of identification and representation. We discover the repression, deportation and “decriminalization” that homosexuality suffered in France, but also the emergence of plural and sometimes conflicting political movements. Multiple LGBTQI+ identities (lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, intersex, etc.) are emerging before our eyes.
Through these stories, Antoine Idier and Pochep bear witness to the fact that sexual minorities, resisting heteronormative domination, have continued for nearly two centuries to reinvent cultural codes, solidarities and sociabilities, to forge representations and tools of struggle.
Antoine Idier is a sociologist, lecturer at Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye and specialist in the homosexual condition in France. He is the author of Repress and repair: an erased history of homosexuality, Textuel, 2025
Pochep is a French cartoonist, author of numerous comic strips including the 10th volume of theComics History of France. He contributes to various journals including Fluide Glacial.
Bibliothèque Buffon
A “Queer Resistance” meeting with the two authors will take place on Saturday June 13 at the Buffon library Queer resistance - meeting on history and - City of Paris