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Contents:
- GAY LIFE STAL’S GULAG
- WHAT HAPPENED WHEN A GAY COMMUNIST WROTE TO STAL
- A DOUBLE DEFEAT: CATASTROPHE FOR GAY EMANCIPATN GERMANY AND THE USSR
GAY LIFE STAL’S GULAG
* stalin gay *
By: Alfonso CasalThe fact that homosexualy was crimally sanctned unr Soviet law is somethg that is often thrown the face of munists general, and ed to “discred” Comra Stal particular. Ined, “Stal hated gays” is somethg I’ve seen posted onle numero tim by trots and anarchists.
WHAT HAPPENED WHEN A GAY COMMUNIST WROTE TO STAL
What needs to be stated is that Soviet legal and medil opn on this qutn was no different than what was generally accepted the world at large, namely, that homosexualy was a psycho-sexual disorr, a form of mental illns. Addnally, there were arguments ma that attempted to tie homosexualy to fascism – pecially nsirg that many of Hler’s Brownshirts were as this may seem, needs to be seen historil ntext. ’ In fact, was only 1975 that the Amerin Psychologil Associatn self ceased to classify homosexualy as a mental disorr.
A DOUBLE DEFEAT: CATASTROPHE FOR GAY EMANCIPATN GERMANY AND THE USSR
It should be noted, by parison, that the GDR had a much more open and posive policy wh rpect to homosexualy. By 1987, GDR law stated that “homosexualy, jt like heterosexualy, reprents a variant of sexual behavr.
Homosexual people do therefore not stand outsi socialist society, and the civil rights are warranted to them exactly as to all other cizens.