In 1933-34 the gas ma by gay men Germany and the Soviet Unn were abptly reversed.
Contents:
- 1917 RSIAN REVOLUTN: THE GAY MUNY'S BRIEF WDOW OF EEDOM
- GAY THE USSR
- GAY LIFE STAL’S GULAG
- A DOUBLE DEFEAT: CATASTROPHE FOR GAY EMANCIPATN GERMANY AND THE USSR
- WHAT HAPPENED WHEN A GAY COMMUNIST WROTE TO STAL
1917 RSIAN REVOLUTN: THE GAY MUNY'S BRIEF WDOW OF EEDOM
Rsian tolerance of the gay muny was briefly terpted unr the Bolsheviks. * soviet union gay *
However, also rri the implied nnotatn that the practice of ‘homosexualy’, is fact the practice of ‘child abe’, wh the former beg clearly nflated wh the latter, spe the fact that Article 121 appears to fe ‘perasty’ as the performance of a sexual act between one man and another.
GAY THE USSR
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Article 121, spe s cur readg, appears to have been signed to protect Soviet society om the menace of child abe and paedophilia, although is rerd that Soviet amia was terted the practice of homosexualy om a medil perspective, and attemptg to ascerta s root e (wh a number of early Soviet rearchers followg the Czarist assumptn of aberratn). However, the important area of homosexualy, s progrsive nature was not fully veloped at the time, not bee of any ‘imaged’ anti-gay agendas, but bee Socialist dialectil velopment simply tak time to unfold a scientific and logil manner.
GAY LIFE STAL’S GULAG
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It is an tertg pot to observe that both the USSR (and the post-Soviet-Rsian Feratn), reta a hostile and negative attu toward both the theory and practice of homosexualy – if homosexualy is fed as a sexual relatnship between two nsentg adults of the same genr; i. The Soviet law text entled ‘Crimal Co of the RSFSR’, Chapter Four – ‘Crim Agast the Life, Health, Freedom, and Digny of the Person’, ntas Article 121 (1934), which stat full the followg, which forbids male homosexual relatnships:.
However, also rri the implied nnotatn that the practice of ‘homosexualy’, is fact the practice of ‘child abe’, wh the former beg clearly nflated wh the latter, spe the fact that the actual anti-homosexual legislatn qutn, f ‘perasty’ as the performance of a sexual act between one man and another.
A DOUBLE DEFEAT: CATASTROPHE FOR GAY EMANCIPATN GERMANY AND THE USSR
For almost a full century now, the revolutnary prospect of socialism has fuelled openg forays first of the homosexual emancipatn and later of the gay liberatn movements, both Europe and North Ameri. It spired Edward Carpenter and Magn Hirschfeld at the turn of the century; André … * soviet union gay *
Where homosexualy was mentned by the bourgeois legal s, was ually viewed as an exprsn of sexual viancy, and is tertg to note that the legal system of the Soviet Unn took this le, when virtually all other areas, the USSR thoroughly parted away om tablished bourgeois thkg.
WHAT HAPPENED WHEN A GAY COMMUNIST WROTE TO STAL
Historil rmatn about the reprsn of gay men the Soviet Unn the wake of the ernment's re-crimalisatn of homosexualy 1933, after s crimalisatn 1922. Trigger warng for sexual vlence. * soviet union gay *
In fact the emancipatn of women om patriarchal ntrol was a major feature of Soviet Law, and yet this did not apparently extend to the nsiratn of the emancipatn of homosexual women om the equally ‘patriarchal’ bias of male legal domatn.
Anti-homosexual views are a product of historil relig views that have been superimposed onto secular bourgeois society – simply through force of hab om one generatn to the next – that has nothg to do wh science, but which has been morally assumed to be ‘scientific’ nature.