[news] Socialism and Homosex

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By Doug Ireland, Gay City News, July 28, 2008

Recovering our hidden gay history has been a critically important byproduct of the modern gay movement, and in its current Summer 2008 issue, the 46-year-old independent socialist review New Politics has published a significant discovery that restores to us a lost moment of our political history - specifically, of the history of gays and the left.

[A professor of history at Ohio State University has recently] unearthed the fact that there was an organized effort within the Socialist Party [in the early 1950's] to have it take a firm and bold position in favor of the decriminalization of homosexuality and the end of discrimination against gays and lesbians - an unheard of political initiative at the time for any political party.  


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