Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The attitude of the communist movement and historical communist states regarding homosexuality has been varied. Views from various communists and communist states have ranged from acceptance to apathy, and even to condemnation.While some communists states historically claimed that homosexuality was a result of capitalist society and of bourgeois decadence (e.g. Cuba), many communists in recent years (particularly in the Western world) maintain that sexual liberation and gay liberation are key issues within communism. Critics such as Sherry Wolf have argued that socialist movements have been unfairly conflated with the governments of Cuba, China and the Soviet Union on this issue (widely regarded as Communist states), arguing that the socialist and communist movements have historically been accepting of LGBT rights.Karl Marx spent very little of his time discussing sexuality, but was known to hold homophobic views towards gay men in private; Friedrich Engels also condemned male homosexuality and associated it with ancient Greek pederasty. On the other hand, in 1917, Lenin repealed the Tsarist laws in Soviet Russia, thus decriminalizing divorce, abortion and homosexuality. Joseph Stalin re-criminalized homosexuality in 1933, labelling it as a disease. This law withstood through the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and was only repealed in 1993 under Boris Yeltsin."@en }
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- Communism_and_homosexuality abstract "The attitude of the communist movement and historical communist states regarding homosexuality has been varied. Views from various communists and communist states have ranged from acceptance to apathy, and even to condemnation.While some communists states historically claimed that homosexuality was a result of capitalist society and of bourgeois decadence (e.g. Cuba), many communists in recent years (particularly in the Western world) maintain that sexual liberation and gay liberation are key issues within communism. Critics such as Sherry Wolf have argued that socialist movements have been unfairly conflated with the governments of Cuba, China and the Soviet Union on this issue (widely regarded as Communist states), arguing that the socialist and communist movements have historically been accepting of LGBT rights.Karl Marx spent very little of his time discussing sexuality, but was known to hold homophobic views towards gay men in private; Friedrich Engels also condemned male homosexuality and associated it with ancient Greek pederasty. On the other hand, in 1917, Lenin repealed the Tsarist laws in Soviet Russia, thus decriminalizing divorce, abortion and homosexuality. Joseph Stalin re-criminalized homosexuality in 1933, labelling it as a disease. This law withstood through the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and was only repealed in 1993 under Boris Yeltsin.".