Communism and LGBT rights

[mrld1630]

So this is a topic I've been quite curious about for some time. In communism; what is the status of LGBT rights? I know here in the United States several communist parties embrace LGBT equality and LGBT liberation but it seems to be a very recent phenomenon.

In Cuba, Nepal, and Europe communist parties are just getting around to supporting LGBT rights. Why is it communist parties have been so late in addressing this issue.

50 years ago CPUSA expelled members who openly declared homosexuality. I was just curious if Communism is all about liberating oppressed peoples why are we so late to jump on the band wagon?

[Aurora]

There was a thread on this recently in discrimination that you might be interested in:
http://www.revleft.com/vb/homosexuality-and-communism-t159577/index.html

I'm pretty sure it answers all of your questions, although this quote posted by NHIA which i hadn't seen before i found particularly good.

"[Soviet legislation] declares the absolute non-interference of the state and society into sexual matters, so long as nobody is injured and no one’s interests are encroached upon. Concerning homosexuality, sodomy, and various other forms of sexual gratification, which are set down in European legislation as offences against morality--Soviet legislation treats these exactly as so-called 'natural' intercourse. All forms of sexual intercourse are private matters." - Dr. Grigorii Batkis (director Moscow Institute of Social Hygiene), The Sexual Revolution in Russia, 1923. [Emphasis in original]

[TheGodlessUtopian]

It varies from time periods,but all modern day leftist parties support full equality for all queer (LGBT) individuals.They would hardly be communist if they didn't.

As time dictates many were once homophobic but such is a current in the past: if you come across an organization that doesn't support equality than they aren't worth your time.

[Kadir Ateş]

"Rights" demand agency, and agency demands that some higher authority recognise or determine them as legitimate or not legitimate. We could say that such an authority would be the State. In communism the state does not exist, and so whatever one's sexual orientation or gender identity be under bourgeois society, i.e. now, would not really matter at all and be free to be yourself in that regard.