Before Stonewall
The New People's Army, a communist insurgency within the Philippines, has also made several statements supporting equal rights of same-sex couples and gay individuals, performing the first same-sex marriage in the country and officially endorsing such legislation if they were to come to power. Since the Stonewall Rebellion in New York City in , there have been great strides forward in achieving equal rights for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people. However, even today, all who make up the LGBTQ community continue to face discrimination and sometimes violence. Why the Communist Party fears gay rights
In looking back on the history of what we today call the struggle for Gay Rights or Gay Liberation, the Communist and Socialist contributions to that struggle are deserving of both recognition and analysis. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels said very little about sexuality. The Encyclopedia of Homosexuality , volume two, is unequivocal on Marx and Engels view of homosexuality, stating: "There can be little doubt that, as far as they thought of the matter at all, Marx and Engels were personally homophobic , as shown by an acerbic exchange of letter on Jean Baptista von Schweitzer , a German socialist rival. The Communist movement and gay rights
The modern movement for queer liberation—or gay liberation to use the as-yet less inclusive terminology of the s and ’70s—wouldn’t exist without the Communist Party USA. That might sound like a big claim to make, but it was Communist ideology and political strategy that provided the theoretical and practical architecture of the earliest effort to win gay equality in the United States—the Mattachine Society, a group whose ideas underpinned all the struggles and victories in the country that have been won over the past half century. Without them, there would no doubt have been a movement for queer equality in one form or another, as there were already stirrings elsewhere prior to Mattachine, especially in Europe. 
The LGBTQ Movement and the Fight for Equality
The question of why Stalin’s regime felt the need to target the Soviet Union’s gay and bi folks is answered by looking at the communist rhetoric of the era, as well as the growing tension between the Soviet Union and the world’s other totalitarian system in vogue at the time — fascism. Communists believed that homosexuality was evidence of bourgeois decadence among the aristocracy and. History News Network puts current events into historical perspective. Subscribe to our newsletter for new perspectives on the ways history continues to resonate in the present.
Communist states have sometimes been havens for LGBTQ rights
These are grim and lonely times for China’s gay communities, as the country’s LGBT support groups are forced to close, one by one. This campaign of repression reveals a lot about President Xi. In looking back on the history of what we today call the struggle for Gay Rights or Gay Liberation, the Communist and Socialist contributions to that struggle are deserving of both recognition and analysis. And the role of militancy itself also needs to be remembered, both by gay and straight people, if the gains of recent decades are not to be reversed. 
Communism and LGBTQ rights
Communist attitudes towards LGBTQ rights have evolved radically in the 21st century. In the 19th and 20th century, communist parties and Marxist–Leninist states varied on LGBTQ rights; some Western and Eastern parties were among the first political parties to support LGBTQ rights, while others, especially the Soviet Union, some of its Eastern Bloc members, and the Communist East Asian. .
The Long, Whitewashed History of Communist Homophobia
American commentators have used the repression of gay life in states like Cuba to discredit socialism. The history of communist approaches to sexuality is more complex, as in the former East Germany. . 
Socialism and LGBTQ rights
Archives and oral histories reveal that for many gay and lesbian people in East Germany during the Cold War, the communist nation was a more open and tolerant place than many Western states. .