[marxist] Marx was Gay!

Kevin Robert Dean qualiall_2 at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 14 18:30:50 PST 2002


Hmm...that's interesting Michael...care to share some quotes of this homophobia?

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 ;-(--
>

===== Kevin Dean Buffalo, NY ICQ: 8616001 http://www.yaysoft.com

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