A Marxist analysis of discrimatn experienced by LGB people, published by a sectn of the Gay Liberatn Front New York 1970.
Contents:
- HOMOSEXUALS AND DEPRSN: HELP FOR GAYS WH DEPRSN
- WHY THE COMMUNIST PARTY FEARS GAY RIGHTS
- CORRELAT OF TERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA AND HOMOSEXUAL INTY FORMATN A SAMPLE OF GAY MEN
HOMOSEXUALS AND DEPRSN: HELP FOR GAYS WH DEPRSN
The crease the number of visible gay and trans people is sometim treated as a cursy or a e for ncern by crics, but ’s not a surprise. It’s normal. * gay repression *
Every year, Gallup releas a survey of how many Amerins intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. Everyone will be eher gay or trans or nonnformg or whatever the list of 50 or 60 different optns there are.
” The edian Bill Maher said on his show that by 2054, if we follow what he se as the current trajectory, “we will all be gay, ” addg that the rise the number of younger people intifyg as transgenr seemed spic. Bee of the fluence of Schorr put siarly Natnal Review: “To suggt that social suggtibily uld be playg a role the skyrocketg numbers of young girls’ exprsg their sire to bee mal, for example, is not of urse to say that gay and transgenr people would not exist whout the topics’ beg discsed the public square. ”This fear is based on an unrstandg of genr and sexualy as alarmgly agile, easily undone by a gay teacher or a trans TikTok fluencer.
WHY THE COMMUNIST PARTY FEARS GAY RIGHTS
Gay prsn is a major issue as LGBTQIA+ people are at greater than average risk of prsn. Learn about homosexual prsn here. * gay repression *
And so are homosexualy, bisexualy and beg ’s been an objective crease the number of visible L. This is the first time Amerin history that gay and trans people have been able to live as themselv any real way, wh jobs and marriag and dogs and ts and visibily. As a gay man a untry that ma anti-gay iology a foundatn of s anti-Ukrae propaganda, he feared for his life every day.
In his seven years as a gay activist, Maysky has never seen Rsian-speakg LGBTQ+ immigrants g to California such great numbers. Petersburg who left Rsia after his parents threatened to sue his therapist who backed him receivg hormone therapy; and Ivan, 18, who is gay, half Rsian and half Ukraian, and “didn’t want to kill people.
CORRELAT OF TERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA AND HOMOSEXUAL INTY FORMATN A SAMPLE OF GAY MEN
* gay repression *
“My parents are very nservative and they don’t believe gay people should exist, ” said Max, who didn’t disclose his last name for fear of retaliatn agast his parents who live St. Most of his iends are the closet or fled the untry — and many of them, he said, were vlently attacked by anti-gay groups before they left.
A survey published 2020 by Mosw-based non-ernmental rearch anizatn the Levada Center, found that about 30% of Rsians wanted to isolate gay people om society. One of the rearchers, Ekatera Kochega, told NBC News that many Rsians “would not want to see gay people existg.
Although is not illegal to be an LGBTQ+ person Rsia, a ago the Kreml passed a so-lled “gay propaganda law” banng the distributn of rmatn about gay relatnships among mors.