Portraits / interviews

Painter Marc Pitraerens and his partner Paul Mestag

Forty years of a homosexual couple’s life far ahead of its time These interviews with contemporary painter Marc Pitraerens and his partner Paul Mestag were published in December 2019 in the Suzan Daniel Fund’s annual review. Marc’s younger years   Marc was born at the end of the Second World War on 7 April 1944…

Françoise Mallet-Joris (1930-2016)

From Rempart des Béguines to homosexual love affairs Françoise Lilar, whose pen name was Françoise Mallet-Joris, was a prolific author of some thirty novels and biographies (of women), a few plays, and lyrics for French singers. She would keep her dual nationality, Belgian by birth and French by naturalization, for the rest of her life.…