Guy Hocquenghem (10 December 1946 â 28 August 1988) was a French writer, philosopher, and queer theorist. Hocquenghem was born in the suburbs of Paris and was educated at the LycĂ©e Lakanal in Sceaux and the Ecole Normale SupĂ©rieure in Paris. At the age of fifteen he began an affair with his high school philosophy teacher, RenĂ© Scherer. They remained lifelong friends. His participation in the May 1968 student rebellion in