Tomorrow I'll grab the volume, "Gay Men and the Sexual History of the Socialist Left, " http://www.frontlist.com/detail/1560230673 off the shelves of the SFPL. One chapter compiles dozens of examples, taken from Marx and Engels letters, of a really rather crude homophobia directed at a factional opponent in the First International. "Johann Baptist von Schweitzer: The Queer Marx Loved to Hate, "by Hubert Kennedy in the vol. above, reviews by him, http://home.att.net/~clairnorman/Selected.pdf http://home.pacbell.net/hubertk/ http://www.google.com/search?q=Johann+Baptist+von+Schweitzer+Marx http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/sex_gender/engels_homophobia.htm
In the meantime, one google hit, Marx + homnosexuality. http://www.etext.org/Politics/AlternativeOrange/2/v2n2_mth1.html The Alternative Orange (Volume 2 Archive): An Alternative Student Newspaper Marxist Theory of Homosexuality: Past, Present and Future
Oh, and googling around, was reminded of a very good autobiography I read in college, Kleinberg, Seymour Alienated affections; being gay in America, the first chapter being his acct. of being closeted when in the Young Communist League.
As I'm sure most on this thread know, founder of the Mattachine Society, Harry Hay (lover in the 30's was Will Geer) was in the CPUSA.
And, Dwight Macdonald in, "Politics, " published a pioneering piece by Robert Duncan, "The Homosexual In Society, " glbtq >> literature >> Duncan, Robert ... In August 1944, he published "The Homosexual in Society" in Dwight Macdonald's magazine Politics. In this article, Duncan called for openness regarding ... http://www.glbtq.com/literature/duncan_r.htm
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