L’Ostéomatéopate, la seule canne en harmonie itétudienne pour les ébats de nos rêves pétaloïdes

ISSUE: No. 2 "bise seconde" (1978).

One of the 10 issues of a howlingly campy, dizzyingly pun-packed and quite brazen avant garde confection produced early in the career of longtime Rennais queer activist, book-dealer and bibliographer Jacques Ars.

L'Ostéomatéopate is a proto-zine which poses as a journal "pour nous faux-éphèbes, efféminées, tapettes, gouins, pédales, anti-macchottes, folles en mouvement, gays libideurs hystériques, Carolines du 3ième âge, punks-pinks no futur, bourgeoises décadentes, folles travailleuses en lutte, folles moyen-ageueses en mouvance, folles lesbiennes, éphemmes."

Both the editorial contents and the horror vacui of the cut-and-paste design reflect the enduring radical queer gender and sexual politics of France in the late 1970s, as well as the aggressive style of anti-assimilationist graphics, humor and slang in an era when the new gay masculinity and the burgeoning gay consumer lifestyle were taking hold.

The full run of L'Ostéomatéopate was subsequently adapted in the form of an exceptionally scarce artist's book: Jacques Ars, Je serai femme du monde chez les gauchistes: Nouveau roman pour une nouvelle culture homosexuelle & Ostéomatéopate, revue des années molles (Rennes: Editions ADHO, 1980).

LAID IN: Three stickers from L'Ostéomatéopate photocopied on white crack-and-peel paper:

"L'Ostéomatéopate. Campagne 79. Laissez vivre les bébées-folles" (1979); 18.8 cm x 11 cm (maximum).

"Nous sommes toutes des folles bourgeoises & decadantes. Gouins celtes. Des pédales qui n'aiment pas les mecs" (n.d.); 18.7 cm x 10 cm (maximum).

"79 I internationale rose" (1979); 11.3 cm x 8.3 cm (maximum).

NOTE: Zine as new; stickers slightly yellowed.