Pierre Guénin

Pierre Guénin (19 February 1927 – 1 March 2017) was a French journalist and gay rights activist. He was an early publisher of LGBT magazines in the late 1960s and the 1970s. He founded LGBT movie awards in France and the Prix Pierre Guénin for LGBT activists. He was also a journalist for Cinémonde.

Guénin was born in Étampes, France on 19 February 1927. He founded Editions S.A.N., a publisher of LGBT magazines, in 1967. He was also the founding editor of Eden and Olympe, whose writings were forbidden under President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in 1978.

Guénin died in Paris on 1 March 2017 from complications from pneumonia. He was 90.

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