This French cartoon was created by FHAR, the Homosexual Front for Revolutionary Action. FHAR was was founded in 1971 in the aftermath of May 1968. Guy Hocquenghem and Christine Delphy were members.
In the cartoon, take a look at the women in the right hand corner: you have one woman pointing her finger as if she is telling the other woman how it is, but really her desire for the other woman is blocked, a blocked erotic desire if you will... a desire that is repressed in society.
The big bubble emanating from the woman pointing her finger depicts men (and some women) who are unaware of or unable to act on the same-sex desire that they feel. Rather, they feel this desire through gender and sexual violence or through homosocial bonding.
In the other image of the two women making love in the right hand corner, they are somehow escaping this whole process of violence through their "liberated desire" for one another.
See Michael Moon's introduction to Homosexual Desire by Guy Hocquenghem (pages 11-16) for more on this cartoon. I credit him for bringing this cartoon to my attention and for the above description.
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