Sold on newsstands, Gaie France reflected cultural and political ambitions close to the New Right. The director of publication, Michel Caignet, believed that the gay community had a role to play in the perspective of a cultural, political, and artistic renewal within Europe. The magazine was deeply associated with the French far-right, featuring text written by far-right figures like Guillaume Faye and Philippe Randa. [1]
Paul Raisant led Association of Friends of Gaie France, which published a bulletin called Sparte, homosexualité et tradition in 1987.[1]
The magazine focussed heavily on pornographic images of adolescents, offering money to underage readers willing to send in naked photos of themselves.[1] It frequently contained defences of paedophilia and hosted small ads sections in which paedophiles arranged to meet and rent spaces from each other.[1] In keeping with its racist values, it published articles arguing for the superiority of blond and blue-eyed boys.[1]
Gaie France was prohibited for sale to minors by ministerial decree on May 27, 1992, due to "incitement to paedophilia". Gaie France ceased publication in 1993.[2]
