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This article looks at the early works of French author Guillaume Dustan and how he navigated Paris and its gay neighborhood as places of extreme practices: drugs, extreme sex practices, unprotected sex at a time when HIV was still killing gay men; all these practices come together to form a gay "ghetto."
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This page is a summary of: Dustan’s Ghetto: Paris and the Marais as Loci of Extremes, September 2024, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004707894_009.
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