This book attempts to provide an answer to the following questions: How was American gay liberation received in France between the events of Stonewall and the AIDS crisis?; What part did translations of American 'gay fiction' play in this reception?; How might the various intercultural movements that characterize the French response to 'American gay' be conceptualized as translational? The book features detailed analyses of key textual and paratextual dimensions of selected translations within an understanding of the French fascination in the 1970s with the model of gay emancipation in the United States. Through an examination of the translations of Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance, John Rechy's Rushes and Larry Kramer's Faggots, it explores the dynamic of attraction, assimilation, transformation and rejection that characterizes French attitudes at the time.