In this article, Jan Willem Duyvendak and Mattias Duyves describe and
analyze the development of France's most important gay magazine: Gai P
ied. They discuss the development of this weekly publication in relati
on to changes that have taken place in the French homosexual movement
and the broader political context in the intervening years. Gai Pied w
as the most successful innovation of the gay movement in France at the
end of the seventies. Indeed, in contemporary France the gay press se
ems 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 comme
rcialized and less challenging to the readers) has been too high.