Rumour had it that one of Marx's daughters (I forgot which one) committed suicide because old Karl couldn't accept her being a lesbian, but I could never find any evidence to support that claim.
Indulge!
--- michael pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net> wrote:
>
>
> I'd love to claim Karl and Fred were gay lovers
> (remember a t-shirt
> from the late 70's of the Union for Radical
> Political Economics
> of Karl and Fred holding hands) but, this isn't
> true. An excellent
> anthology, "Gay Men and the History of the Socialist
> Left, "
> edited by Gert Hekma, Harry OOsterhuis and James
> Steakley, published
> by Harrington Press, a reprint of an issue of the
> Journal of
> Homosexuality has a chapter, "Johann Baptist von
> Schweitzer:
> The Queer Marx Loved To Hate."Written by Hubert
> Kennedy at S.F.
> State. Extensive quotes from letters to and from
> Karl and Fred
> and others in the First Int'l. full of the most
> crude homophobic
> invective. This article is a revision of an earlier
> piece that
> appeared in, "Fag Rag, " a Boston gay journal with
> an anarchist
> feel to the one issue I have from the 70's. Michael
> Pugliese-P.S.
> Roy Cohn was gay. Can't have all the angels on our
> side ;-(--
>
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