Jean Genet on being twice male

(Illustration: Erotic huaco depicting men in the act of sodomy, Peru c. 800)

“A male who fucks a male is a double male.”

–Jean Genet in Our Lady of the Flowers (1943)

Genet in 1983

Jean Genet was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. In his early life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later became a writer and playwright. Wikipedia

Born December 19, 1910, 6th arrondissement, Paris, France

Died April 14, 1986 (age 75 years), Paris, France

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