In France in the 1960s, the theoretical link between sexuality and revolution was constructed in unique ways. Beginning in the late 1950s, male intellectuals who had left the communist party rediscovered the concept of sexual revolution. Their readings of libertarian socialists and foreign writers led them to rejuvenate orthodox Marxism. After 1965, these intellectuals began to consider students’ concerns, as students forged their own demands and gained media coverage of the sexual revolution through occupations of university halls of residence, leaflets, and graffiti. Despite their attempts to subvert sexual norms, however, alternative discourses on sexuality in the 1960s revealed a masculine and heterosexual bias, which was ultimately interrogated in the early 1970s by feminists and LGBT movements.