The New Soviet Man; fighting for Full Gay Communism and the promise of Lads, Peace, and Bread.
I spend way too much time on Socialist Meme Caucus.
I spend way too much time on Socialist Meme Caucus.
Magnus Hirschfeld: The Origins of the Gay Liberation Movement. By: Ralf Dose, translated by Edward H. Willis. Monthly Review Press, 2014. 144 pp.Dose does not give a full sense of how closely Hirschfeld was sometimes associated with the far left. Hirschfeld called, at the outbreak of the German revolution in November 1918, for a “true people’s state with a genuinely democratic structure” and a “social republic.” He had a significant influence on Soviet sexual policies in the 1920s. His work was cited for example in the discussions that led to the decriminalization of homosexuality in the Soviet Union in 1922. Soviet Health Commissar Nikolai Semashko and Institute of Neuropsychiatric Prophylaxis director Lev Rozenshtein visited the Institute for Sexual Science; Hirschfeld reciprocated with a visit to Moscow in 1926
By 2003 almost nobody was enforcing their sodomy laws. You don't think that the state of Florida knew what/where all the gay establishments were?