The Communist Party is mted to full equaly – cludg equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer people. The party oppos any effort to ny employment, hog, adoptn privileg, or marriage rights to any person or uple on the basis of sexual orientatn or genr i...
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WHAT HAPPENED WHEN A GAY COMMUNIST WROTE TO STAL
The morn movement for queer liberatn—or gay liberatn to e the as-yet ls clive termology of the 1960s and ’70s—wouldn’t exist whout the Communist Party USA. * gay communist *
Early the history and velopment of munism, the German Communist Party, durg the Weimar Republic, joed wh the Social Democrats support of efforts to legalize private homosexual relatns between nsentg adults. Although Karl Marx himself said ltle about sexualy at all, many saw that his philosophy was meant to ee all people om opprsn, cludg women, blacks, and homosexuals — prumably so they uld all serve the state.
That might sound like a big claim to make, but was Communist iology and polil strategy that provid the theoretil and practil archecture of the earlit effort to w gay equaly the Uned Stat—the Mattache Society, a group whose ias unrpned all the stggl and victori the untry that have been won over the past half century. Mattache, one of the first groups to attempt to polilly anize gay men and lbians, was tablished over the urse of 1948 to 1950, a perd of rurgent nservative power and suburban-spired social nformy U.