Brigitte Boucheron (born 23 August 1947) is a French feminist and anarchist Lesbian activist. She was a co-founder of the women only Bagdam Cafee in Toulouse which opened in 1988. The cafe closed in 1999 but the name lives on with annual events as a focus for lesbian culture.
Brigitte Boucheron
in 2012
Born
23 August 1947 (1947-08-23) (age 76)
Nationality
French
Education
Universities in Nantes and Poitiers
Known for
opening the Bagdam Cafee a real and later virtual focus for lesbian culture
She was born in 1947. Her family were traders and as she grew up she read George Sand. She was academic but her exploits with a Catholic teacher's daughter got her expelled. Nevertheless she went on to study literature, art history and musicology at universities in Nantes and Poitiers. She met Jacqueline Julien.[1]
In 1988 she and Jacqueline Julien opened the Bagdam Cafee in Toulouse. This open cafe is credited with moving the focus of French lesbian culture south. She and Julien had been active about ten years before but they had given up as it held no pleasure for them. Their creation was targeted at pleasure rather than politics, but this women only cafe was also part of a larger movement where lesbians were making themselves visible in society. Julien, at least, saw the cafe as a way of establishing a "new order".[2]
The cafe was the focus for lesbian culture in the midi pyrenee attracting 8,000 visits during its existence. In 1995 alone it had dozens of events from seminars to films and its supporters collected money for lesbian based legal battles.
The Bagdam Cafee closed on 1 January 1999[3] but its name continued in the Bagdam Espace Lesbien.[2] This was more than a web presence, although that was part of it.[4] The organisation published books, organised an annual festival named "Lesbian Spring", created other events as well as contesting legal events and organising protests.[2]
Publications et contributionsedit
with Jacqueline Julien, Le sexe sur le bout de la langue (Sex on the Tip of your Tongue), Toulouse, Espace Lesbien, 2002.[5]
France, 1990s, the lesbian decade , communication in the seminar Orientation and sexual identity, gender issues, Université Toulouse-Jean-Jaurès, 12 mai 1999.[6]
Introduction to a history of the lesbian movement in France', contribution Visibility / invisibility of lesbians, Coordination lesbienne en France (CLF), Paris, 19 mai 2007.[7]
^ abcAtack, Margaret; Fell, Alison S.; Holmes, Diana; Long, Imogen (2019-11-30). Making Waves: French Feminisms and their Legacies 1975-2015. Oxford University Press. pp. 123–126. ISBN978-1-78962-455-7. from the original on 2020-06-22. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
^"Infos sur Bagdam Espace Lesbien ... catégorie Communaute homosexuelle". www.annuaire.alorthographe.com. from the original on 2020-06-06. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
^"Bagdam Espace Lesbien - Toulouse". www.bagdam.org. from the original on 2005-11-22. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
^Michèle Sarde, De l'alcôve à l'arène : Nouveau regard sur les Françaises, Robert laffont, 2010, note 387 2017-12-01 at the Wayback Machine.
^"Bagdam Espace Lesbien - Textes théoriques". www.bagdam.org. from the original on 2017-06-10. Retrieved 2018-01-01..
February 25, 2024
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