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.
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WHAT HAPPENED WHEN A GAY COMMUNIST WROTE TO STAL
* 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.