André Baudry (31 August 1922 – 1 February 2018) was a French writer who was the founder of the homophile review Arcadie.
[1] A former seminarian and philosophy professor,[2] Baudry became interested in the debate about sexuality following the publication of the Kinsey report in 1948, the Deuxième Sexe by Simone de Beauvoir en 1952, and the theology thesis of the same year entitled Vie Chrétienne et problèmes de la sexualité by Marc Oraison.
[2] In 1960, at the time of the promulgation of the Mirguet amendment which cast homosexuality as the source of all social ills, Baudry eliminated the classified ads and photographs from the review, out of fear of being shut down.
In 1979, he invited a large congress of sympathetic well-known intellectuals like Michel Foucault, Robert Merle, and Paul Veyne.
Arcadie Records, 1956-1979 (.2 cubic feet) are housed at Cornell University Library Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections