Pierre Guénin

Pierre Guénin (19 February 1927 – 1 March 2017) was a French journalist and gay rights activist. He was an early publisher of LGBT magazines in the late 1960s and the 1970s. He was the founder of LGBT movie awards in France. He was the founder of the Prix Pierre Guénin for LGBT activists. He was a journalist for "Cinémonde".
Guénin was born in Étampes, France on 19 February 1927. 
Guénin founded Editions S.A.N., a publisher of LGBT magazines, in 1967. He was the founding editor of "Eden" and "Olympe", whose writings were forbidden under President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in 1978.
Guénin died on 1 March 2017 from complications from pneumonia in Paris at the age of 90.