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Lavender & RedHOMEARCHIVESBOOKSPDF ARCHIVEWWPSUBSCRIBEDONATENOTICIAS EN ESPAÑOLSEARCHEmail this articlePrint this pageLavender & Red11Published Jun 8, 2005 4:54 PMFollow workers.org on1. Rise of German Homosexual EmancipationMovementLike66Share2. The love that dared to speak its name3. Lesbians on the front lines of fight for rights,liberation4. ‘The war to end all wars’RED HOT: EGYPT, NORTH5. Sexual freedom vs. fascism in GermanyAFRICA & MIDDLE EAST, ANTI-WAR, 6. Gender and sexuality in czarist RussiaHEALTH CARE,CUBA,CLIMATE CHANGE,JOBS JOBS JOBS, AFGHANISTAN ,STOP FORECLOSURES, IRAN, IRAQ,CAPITALIST CRISIS, IMMIGRANTS,LGBT,7. Roots of Russian ‘homosexual subculture’8. Capitalism shakes the branches9. Naysayers pooh-pooh Bolshevik gains10. ‘People of the moonlight’ in the dawn of revolution’11. Soviet Union in the 1920s: Scientific, not utopianPOLITICAL PRISONERS, KOREA, CHINA,12. 1920s Soviet Union: Rights for lesbians, transgenders, transsexualsHONDURAS, HAITI, AFRICA,13. 1930s USSR: Survival with setbacksWOMEN, SOCIALISM, GAZA14. 1930s Soviet Union: ‘Seismic gender shift’15. Progress and regression: Sex and gender in 1930s USSR16. ‘Can a homosexual be a member of the Communist Party?’17. Anti-gay terror in Nazi Germany18. Denazification in socialist Germany opened door to gay rights19. Same-sex rights in East Germany: Legal and material progress20. East Germany in the 1970s: Lesbian & gay movement blossoms21. East Germany: Forming of gay groups ignites church struggle22. Lesbians and gay men: Great gains in 1980s East Germany23. Late 1980s East Germany: Gay/lesbian clubs in Party, state24. Gains cut short by 1989 counter-revolution25. Post-WWII Europe: Struggle for decriminalization26. Beginning of post-war witch hunt: Before McCarthy, the Pentagon27. 1950: ‘Lavender scare’!28. 1950s witch hunt: Even McCarthy was gay baited29. What made Stonewall possible: Early resistance to state /2011 3:45:45 PM]Respond

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Lavender & Red67. Stonewall 1969: ‘All hell broke loose!’68. Stonewall 1969: Fighting in the streets69. Stonewall 1969—second night: ‘Liberate Christopher Street!’70. Stonewall , night 3: ‘The battle was on’71. Many histories converged at Stonewall72. Post-Stonewall gay liberation: ‘Power to the People!’73. Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries74. People of color activists organize across the U.S.75. Early left-wing liberation: ‘Unity with all the oppressed’76. Early gay liberation: Demonstrations of anti-racist solidarity77. Early 1970s: Political split in gay movement78. LGBT members welcomed from day one79. Workers World fought gay oppression before Stonewall80. Internal education on gay liberation81. Party-wide education campaign in 197282. WWP searched for roots of lesbian/gay oppression83. Marxist analysis rocked U.S. left84. Marxist analysis blazed history’s trails85. 1976 WWP pamphlet found answers in Marxism86. 1970s Cold War gay-bashers condemn Cuba87. Colonialism: the real ‘Apocalpto’88. Colonial period in Cuba89. 1950s Havana: Imperialist sexploitation90. Why many Cuban gay men and lesbians left after 195991. Early Cuban Revolution paved road to sexual liberation92. 1965 UMAP brigades: What they were, what they were not93. Hollywood projected Cuba as ‘police state’ for gays94. 1970s: Decade of cultural progress95. Behind the 1980 ‘Mariel boatlift’96. ‘A visible feature of Cuban society’97. Sex education campaign battled old prejudices98. Cuba mobilized before first diagnosis99. Care & prevention, not repression100. Cuba brought science, not scapegoating, to AIDS care101. U.S. imperialist blockade obstructed Cuban AIDS treatment102. Change apparent in still photos and motion pictures103. The sweet taste of change in Cubahttp://www.workers.org/lavender-red/[2/3/2011 3:45:45 PM]

Lavender & Red104. ‘Gay Cuba’105. How La Güinera made room for more gender106. 1990s: Cuba education about same-sex love reached every home107. Cuba‘s CENESEX led the way on sexual rights108. Cuba’s CENESEX proposes ground-breaking transsexual rights109. Cuba: ‘Bringing revolution’s humanity to all aspects of life’110. Rainbow solidarity for Cuban Five circles the globe111. Anti-gay, anti-trans laws rooted in class rule112. Western rulers imposed anti-gay laws throughout world113. Struggles for sexual, gender liberation rooted in national liberationmovements114. ‘Big lie’ and breakup of Yugoslavia115. Wars, lies and ‘mass rape’ charges116. The cynical abuse of ‘women’s rights’117. U.S. war agitation targeted LGBT movements118. U.S.-Britain gay-bashed Afghanistan119. ‘Life better for gay & lesbian Iraqis under Hussein’120. British colonialism outlawed ‘sodomy’ in IraqArticles copyright 1995-2011 Workers World. Verbatim copying anddistribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium without royaltyprovided this notice is preserved.Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011Email: ww@workers.orgSubscribe wwnews-subscribe@workersworld.netSupport independent news 1 3:45:45 PM]

Workers World June 3, 2004: Rise of German Homosexual Emancipation bscribeDonateNoticias en EspañolPride & struggle a century ago:: Donate now ::Rise of German HomosexualEmancipation MovementBy Leslie FeinbergEmail thisarticlePrintablepageEmail the editorSearchWinds of change will fill the banners of Lesbian Gay Bi Trans Pridethis June, lifting them to new heights.After decades of fierce and unrelenting struggle, same-sex love hasbeen effectively decriminalized and many gains have been won.Organizing, rolling civil disobedience has helped push back statedenial of equal rights of same-sex couples--a form of institutionalizeddiscrimination that is a pillar of class society.Millions of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and trans people across theUnited States will take to the streets in Pride events in cities andtowns this June, as they do each year to recall and honor the 1969Stone wall uprising against police repression. And millions of peopleof all nationalities, sexualities, genders and sexes will line the streetsto applaud and cheer these celebrations of individual courage andcollective struggle.The 1969 rebellion in New York's Green wich Village was led by themost oppressed of the LGBT communities--people of color,teenagers, transgender and transsexual, homeless, impoverishedand so marginalized in the work force that prostitution was the onlysource of income for many.The uprising was the spark that ignited a large-scale movement. Itgalvanized quantitative fighting back into qualitative mass resistance.It did not develop in social isolation. The Stonewall Rebellion--whichmarked the birth of what became the modern LGBT movement--rosein the wake of social upheaval against imperialist war and rampantracist repression.Marchers will draw on the lessons of how the left wing of early gayliberation found its way into the anti-war movement, took part in anddefended the national liberation struggles, helped develop women'sliberation, and took part in labor battles from the shop floor toorganizing in support of the Chicano farm workers' union drive.If they look to accurate historical accounts, today's activists will alsofind that the young gay liberation movement received support fromthe most revolutionary sectors of the political left wing.More than three decades later, revisiting this dynamic historicalperiod of struggle is an activist contribution to today's s10603.php[2/3/2011 3:46:31 PM]

Workers World June 3, 2004: Rise of German Homosexual Emancipation MovementBut it is less known to many today that the Stonewall Rebellionlaunched the second--not the first--mass movement for LGBTliberation.The first great wave of struggle to demand sexual and genderemancipation had taken place from 1869 to 1935. It began inGermany. It was a dynamic, expanding movement that grew to beinternational. And it left its mark on other social and politicalmovements, as well as literature and the arts.The history of the struggle in that period, as well, is rich with lessons.Why not in France?Why did the movement appear in Germany? And why in that epoch?It's impossible to glean a broad understanding without examining thesocial and economic soil in which the German movement for sexualand gender emancipation was rooted.The widespread, murderous counter- revolutionary pogroms againstwomen, transgender expression and same-sex love carried out bythe Catholic and early Protestant hierarchies had subsided as theIndustrial Revolution began sweeping away the kingdoms of Europe.The momentous revolution in France at the end of the 18th century-in which the downtrodden and disenfranchised of the cities, includingmany women, played a vitally important part--had uprooted thevestiges of the feudal power of the kings and the Catholic Church.The French Revolution established a legal code, Napoleonic Code,which remov ed homosexual acts from the list of criminal offenses.Of course, state and church bias and demonization were noteradicated by formally removing the laws. Variations of sexuality,gender and sex continued to be subject to a political policy of divideand conquer. And a class-divided economy itself continued to pitsegments of the work force against each other.But the Napoleonic Code was the enlightened act of a youngcapitalist class that saw its role as righting the wrongs of feudalbackwardness. And this decriminalizing of homosexual acts had farreaching effects on other European nations.Why did the French Revolution remove anti-homosexual statuteswhile the capitalist revolutions in England and the United States didnot?The French Revolution was later, and more thorough, for sure. Butthe French capitalist class also had to battle the powerful andtenacious Catholic Church and its ideology. That may have impelledthe revolutionists to have to carry out a more thorough " of theChurch's "moral" authority than in the other countries.So why didn't a sexual liberation movement arise in France? Why inGermany?Because anti-gay repression was much stronger in 10603.php[2/3/2011 3:46:31 PM]