Paco Vidarte

Francisco "Paco" Javier Vidarte Fernández (1 March 1970 – 29 January 2008 in Madrid) was a Spanish philosopher, writer and LGBT activist.

[1] From the mid-1990s onwards, Paco Vidarte, who was gay,[2] was an active member of the LGBT movement in Spain, and especially Madrid.

[3] In Ética Marica (2007), he strongly criticized assimilationist strategies by mainstream LGTB rights groups in Spain, advocating instead for a radically inclusive ethics.

[4] He was a professor at UNED until his death in Madrid in 2008, caused by a malign form of lymphatic cancer and HIV.

He taught courses and seminars on queer theory, Derrida and contemporary French thought.