Didier Lestrade
Didier Lestrade (born February 22, 1958 in Medea , Algeria ) is a French author , journalist and LGBT activist.
Life
After his childhood, which he spent in south-west France, he went to high school in his school days, but did not make the baccalauréat . Lestrade then moved to Paris , where he wrote for the independent gay magazine Gaie Presse , which existed for a short time. At the age of 22, Lestrade Magazine decided to found Trimestriel ( Gai Pied ), which rose to become the most important French magazine for a gay readership in the 1980s, but collapsed in the 1990s. In 1986 the magazine co-founded by Lestrade, which has now appeared in French and English, contained printed interviews with people such as David Hockney , Bronski Beat , Brion Gysin , Divine , Gilbert & George and Tom of Finland . The magazine also contained photographs by well-known European and American photographers such as Pierre & Gilles , Patrick Sarfati , Erwin Olaf , Paul Blanca and Stanley Stellar .
In 1986 Lestrade found that he was HIV positive. Lestrade developed into a journalist with specialist knowledge in the music field. He wrote other articles for Gai Pied magazine , the left-wing liberal newspaper Liberation and the music magazine Rolling Stone . One of his subjects was the beginning of the New House / Techno music scene. In 1989 Lestrade increased his commitment to AIDS projects and, together with friends and journalists Pascal R. Loubet and Luc Coulavin, founded the first French subgroup of the ACT UP organization , of which he was president for the first three years. In 1992 he helped found the French organization TRT-5 , a coalition of several different AIDS organizations. Until 2002 he was part of the organization there.
In 1995, at the age of 37, he co-founded the new monthly LGBT magazine Têtu with journalist Pascal R. Loubet , which was co-financed by Pierre Bergé and supported by Yves Saint Laurent . Têtu magazine rose to become one of the most successful gay magazines in Europe in the late 1990s.
In addition to his work as a journalist, Lestrade has written several books since 2000. His first book, Act up, une Histoire, describes the first eleven years of Act Up-Paris . This was followed in 2002 by the book Kinsey 6 , a diary of the culture and sexualized society of the 1980s. In 2004 his book The End was published , in which he described the problems of current AIDS prevention and the phenomenon of barebacking in France. In 2007 his fourth book Cheikh, journal de campagne was published .
In 2002 Lestrade left Paris and moved to French Normandy near Alençon .
Works (selection)
- Act up, une Histoire. Denoël, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-207-24883-6 .
- Kinsey 6. Denoël, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-207-25219-1 .
- The end. Denoël, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-207-25424-0 .
- Cheikh, journal de campagne. Flammarion, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-08068-964-1 .
- Chroniques du dance floor, Liberation 1988-1999. Editeur singulier, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-9533467-1-8 .
- Le Journal du Sida - Chroniques 1994/2013 . 2014, ISBN 978-2-322-03912-8 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lestrade, Didier |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Medea , Algeria |