The Communist Party’s Gay Propaganda

Contents:

• "THE GAY AGENDA: HOMOEROTICISM COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA" ONLE TALK WH POSTER HOE, NYC
• FIRST RSIA, THEN HUNGARY, NOW ROMANIA IS CONSIRG A 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW 
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• CHE-SOVIET PROPAGANDA POSTERS ARE BASILLY BETIFUL COUPL ON GAYTN
• THE GAY AGENDA: HOMOEROTICISM COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA
• THE CHE-RSIAN COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA POSTERS LOOK LIKE ADS FOR INTERRACIAL GAY MARRIAGE
• THE COMMUNIST PARTY’S GAY PROPAGANDA
• ‘PREDATORY’ GAYS HAVE FILTRATED CHURCH, TRYG TO ‘STROY’ HER: PRIT ON ABE CRISIS

"THE GAY AGENDA: HOMOEROTICISM COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA" ONLE TALK WH POSTER HOE, NYC

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.

Propaganda posters were an tegral part of atttg to the world the close relatnship between Cha and the Soviet Unn and as seen om this photographic llectn they walk hand--hand, kissg, clutchg each other, all happy and gay, so to speak. The signers of the posters didn’t realize how homoerotic they were and later on, many scholars have poted out the overt homoeroticism prent the imag.

Moreover, the socialist aternal kiss was very mon back then, and even today if you go to certa untri, men still kiss on the mouth, and that’s not nsired a sign of homosexualy. Yet submerged beneath s glzy nostalgia and madp fun, the film offers an important rensiratn of a moment history when Hollywood cubated two of the most profound threats to Ameri’s perceived domtic bliss: Communism and homosexualy.

FIRST RSIA, THEN HUNGARY, NOW ROMANIA IS CONSIRG A 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW 

Actor Burt Gurney’s (Channg Tatum) queerns is ially signified an Anchors Aweigh-style mil number, “No Dam!, ” a rog tavern sequence that sts Gurney as a randy sailor ltily “lamentg” the homosocial life at sea. The Cold War ed saw a stepped-up persecutn of homosexuals feral employment and society at large, which occurred alongsi the policizatn of gay women and men through an emergg movement of radilized “homophil. ” Hollywood employed a large number of gay folks as actors (thk Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson, both products of Henry Willson’s beefke fantasi) and employed homosexuals behd the scen jobs as set rators and signers, where they joed unns embraced by radils.

The broar cultural landspe Southern California attracted great swaths of leftists and homosexuals to settle enclav close to the creative atmosphere of Hollywood. Harry Hay, a foundg member of the Mattache Society, one of the earlit gay rights anizatns Ameri, was spired to form his own study group part through his relatnship wh Will Geer, the gay Communist grandpa on TV’s Waltons.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

That the founrs of the morn gay rights movement were also current or former members of the Communist Party is ls surprisg when takg to acunt the fact that the party attracted all kds of disposssed Amerins to jo their revolutn. In openg that door, the Coen brothers aren’t alone: From New York artist Yevgiy Fiks’ votn of notorly anti-gay and anti-Communist publisher Bernarr Macfadn’s Physil Culture his stallatn Homosexualy Is Stal’s Atom Bomb to Dtroy Ameri (2013) to Tony Khner’s provotive play The Intelligent Homosexual’s Gui to Capalism and Socialism Wh a Key to the Scriptur (2009), a moment ripe for explorg the hidn history of ternnectns between homosexualy and the left seems to have arrived.

The film “fets s re dience of fai and children while terg to nostalgic adults and phg lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr character stori, ” wrote a ntributor to Moviegui, a se wh a nservative Christian bent. ”From Your Se ArticlTed Cz, Marsha Blackburn Demand Congrsnal Probe Into Bud Light-Dylan Mulvaney Campaign ›Ted Cz: 'Men Should Not Be Gog to the Bathroom Wh Ltle Girls' ›Zackary Dcker and Hari Nef Ph Beyond 'Trans Tippg Pot' on Good Cover ›Trans Actrs Hari Nef: Trans Folks Derve to Tell Their Own Stori ›A Msage to My Barbie-Lovg Childhood Self ›A Gay Love Letter to Barbie on Her 60th Birthday ›'Barbie' Has Biggt Openg Weekend for a Woman-Directed Film ›.

CHE-SOVIET PROPAGANDA POSTERS ARE BASILLY BETIFUL COUPL ON GAYTN

Scholars have long poted out the overt homoeroticism prent the imag, and tonight Poster Hoe is brgg together two experts the field to tease out the histori and terpretatns of the inic posters. Jo Che-born signer Zipeng Zhu and film historian Bar AlAwadhi as they gui through the provotive, mpy, and credibly homoerotic imagery of Communist Gay Agenda: Homoeroticism Communist Propaganda January 12, 2021 7–8:30pmRegister here! We reproduce here a letter that Harry Whyte (a Brish Communist Party member) wrote to Stal May 1934, which Whyte posed the qutn: “n a homosexual be nsired someone worthy of membership the Communist Party?

Sce he striv to approach this qutn om a Marxist viewpot, the thor of this letter believ that the cree ntradicts both the facts of life self and the prcipl of is a summary of the facts that are discsed tail the attached letter: On the whole, the ndn of homosexuals unr palism is analogo to the ndn of women, the loured rac, ethnic mori, and other groups that are reprsed for one reason or another; The attu of bourgeois society to homosexualy is based on the ntradictn between: palism’s need for “nnon fodr” and a rerve army of labour (leadg to reprsive laws agast homosexualy, which is regard as a threat to birth rat); the ever-growg poverty of the mass unr palism (leadg to the llapse of the workg-class fay and an crease homosexualy). The March 7 law is absurd and unjt om the viewpot of science, which has proven the existence of nstutnal homosexuals and has no means at s disposal to change the sexual nature of homosexuals.

THE GAY AGENDA: HOMOEROTICISM COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA

Dear Comra Stal:Although I am a foreign munist who has not yet been promoted to the AUCP(b), [later to be renamed the CPSU, Communist Party of the Soviet Unn] I neverthels thk that will not seem unnatural to you, the lear of the world proletariat, that I addrs you wh a requt to shed light on a qutn that, as seems to me, has huge signifince for a large number of munists the USSR as well as other qutn is as follows: n a homosexual be nsired someone worthy of membership the Communist Party?

The recently promulgated law on crimal liabily for sodomy, which was affirmed by the USSR Central Executive Commtee on March 7 of this year, apparently means that homosexuals nnot be regnized as worthy of the tle of Soviet cizen. Consequently, they should be nsired even ls worthy to be members of the AUCP(b) I have a personal stake this qutn sofar as I am a homosexual myself, I addrsed this qutn to a number of ras om the OGPU and the People’s Commissariat for Jtice, to psychiatrists, and to Comra Borod, the edor--chief of the newspaper where I work. A photograph of homosexual and cross-drsg Rsians, prr to 1917 / Image: public domaAll that I managed to extract om them was a number of ntradictory opns which show that amongst the ras there is no clear theoretil unrstandg of what might have served as the basis for passage of the given law.

THE CHE-RSIAN COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA POSTERS LOOK LIKE ADS FOR INTERRACIAL GAY MARRIAGE

Comra Borod, who said that he personally took a negative view of homosexualy, at the same time clared that he regard me as a fairly good munist, that I uld be tsted, and that I uld lead my personal life as I liked. Somewhat earlier, when the arrts of homosexuals had only jt begun, Comra Borod was que discled to view me as a potential crimal; he did not regard me as a bad munist, and this was nfirmed by the fact that he promoted me at work by appotg me head of edorial staff, which is the hight-rankg supervisory posn wh the exceptn of members of the edorial board.

Somewhat later, when the December 17 versn of the law already existed, but before the March 7 cree, I ntacted the OGPU nnectn wh the arrt of a certa person wh whom I had had homosexual relatns. I was told there that there was nothg that crimated the statements produced the imprsn that the Soviet ans of jtice were not prosecutg homosexualy as such, only certa socially dangero homosexuals. On the other hand, however, after the law was issued on March 7, I had a nversatn the OGPU which I was told that the law would be strictly applied to each se of homosexualy that was brought to nnectn wh the lack of clary that exists this matter, I turn to you the hope that you will fd the time to give me an me to expla to you this qutn as I unrstand and foremost, I would like to pot out that I view the ndn of homosexuals who are eher of workg-class orig or workers themselv to be analogo to the ndn of women unr the palist regime and the loured rac who are opprsed by imperialism.

This ndn is likewise siar many ways to the ndn of the Jews unr Hler’s dictatorship, and general is not hard to see an analogy wh the ndn of any social stratum subjected to exploatn and persecutn unr palist we analyse the nature of the persecutn of homosexuals, we should keep md that there are two typ of homosexuals: first, those who are the way they are om birth (moreover, if scientists disagree about the precise reasons for this, then there is no disagreement that certa ep-seated reasons do exist); send, there are homosexuals who had a normal sexual life but later beme homosexuals, sometim out of vicns, sometim out of enomic for the send type, the qutn is cid relatively simply. People who bee homosexuals by virtue of their pravy ually belong to the bourgeoisie, a number of whose members take to this way of life after they have sated themselv wh all the forms of pleasure and perversy that are available sexual relatns wh women.

THE COMMUNIST PARTY’S GAY PROPAGANDA

There are also those who bee homosexuals not orr to satisfy their urg, but orr to earn their keep by means of prostutn (this phenomenon has bee pecially wispread morn Germany) science has tablished the existence of nstutnal homosexuals.

"[A]mongst [homosexuals] there are no doubt those who are aidg the nstctn of socialism, n really be possible, as the March 7 law mands, that such a large number of people be subjected to imprisonment?

" / Image: public domaJt as the women of the bourgeois class suffer to a signifintly lser gree om the jtic of the palist regime (you of urse remember what Len said about this), so do natural-born homosexuals of the domant class suffer much ls om persecutn than homosexuals om the workg-class i. (I have md the difficulty of fdg a partner for the sexual act, sofar as homosexuals nstute a mory of the populatn, a mory that is forced to nceal s te proclivi to one gree or another.

‘PREDATORY’ GAYS HAVE FILTRATED CHURCH, TRYG TO ‘STROY’ HER: PRIT ON ABE CRISIS

Capalism, which needs an enormo rerve army of labour and nnon fodr orr to flourish, regards homosexualy as a factor that threatens to lower birth rat (as we know, the palist untri there are laws that punish abortn and other methods of ntraceptn) urse, the attu of the bourgeoisie to the homosexual qutn is typil hypocrisy.

Th the fact of [Astor’s nvictn] beme known thanks to ntradictns wh the domant to s wealth, the bourgeoisie n avoid the legal punishment that scends all s severy on homosexual workers wh the exceptn of those s when the latter have prostuted themselv to members of the domant class. But at the same time, by worseng the livg ndns of workers, palism produc the objective ndns for an crease the number of homosexuals who take to this way of life by virtue of material ntradictn is reflected the fact that fascism, which employed the perast [Mar] van r Lubbe as a weapon s provotn, at the same time btally supprsed the liberal-telligentsia “liberatn” movement of homosexuals led by Dr. ]Another reflectn of this ntradictn is the figure of André Gi, French homosexual wrer, lear of the antifascist movement, and arnt iend of the USSR.

However, bee fascism stroys the workg-class fay and furthers the impoverishment of the mass, sentially stimulat the velopment of the send type of homosexualy I have scribed — that is, [homosexualy] out of only solutn to this ntradictn is the revolutnary transformatn of the existg orr and the creatn of a society which the absence of unemployment, the growg prospery of the mass, and the liquidatn of the fay as an enomic un secure the ndns which no one will be forced to perasty out of necsy.