Didier Lestrade: Gays are forgetting their history

Butt (previously) interviews Didier Lestrade, former publisher of classic French gay zines and periodicals like Magazine (scanned archives) and Têtu. "Unlike many young fags today, we knew our gay history. We were learning all the time about all kinds of stuff and we were always eager to lean more.... It freaks me out to think how quickly we went from creating our own history to not caring about gay history anymore! It happened so fast. No one has even begun to collect and preserve all the material from the Paradise Garage, the Saint, etc., and now gay people don't seem to even care."

And Hate: A Romance, the new book by Tristan Garcia (review), contains a character Lestrade sees as transparently modelled on him.