From genius to lesbian denial, a book to come out of the closet – Libération

The writer Fatima Daas, the comedian Tahnee, the senator Mélanie Vogel or the sportswoman Marie Patouillet: twenty lesbian personalities tell “the journey of those who live on the margins of heterosexuality”.

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The lesbian genius. In 2020, with a brilliant and political essay, which had caused a lot (too much) ink to be spilled, Alice Coffin put words to “this ability to think and design social mechanisms which are completely different from the codes which prevail in patriarchy”, with all the creativity and singularity that this produced. Today, as if mirrored and with a play on words like Libé loves them, Sarah Jean-Jacques and Sophie Pointurier look at the other side of the coin: Lesbian Denial. The one who only asks the question “do you know any famous lesbians?” the answer is often no.

“In France, start the authors, the word lesbians is disturbing. It crystallizes