Question is in the title. Where can I find information about gay and trans rights in the Soviet Union? Or if anyone would be able to share what they know. I understand it was decriminalized in 1917, but that’s about it.
I suppose sources about modern China and LGBTQ would be nice as well, post revolution and current.
Very hard to find trustworthy sources.
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Thanks so much comrade. This is a great starting point for me to have a more detailed search into these topics, since any cursory search on Google or anything really will give you a wall of blatant sino-russophobia.
Just a quick question here - do we know if the homophobia in modern China is rooted mostly in its colonial history, or is it possible that some of that is derived from its Imperial (by this I mean the dynastic, pre colonial) era?
Seems like modern China is doing well with growing their support for these communities, and I wonder if that potential distinction in the sources of homophobia/transphobia (colonial vs dynastic) would play into how they approach these issues, if it all. But regardless of the source of it, it seems clear these conservative views are being abandoned.
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J236v07n01_08?journalCode=wzgp20 I found this pretty informative. Homophobia is not a Chinese phenomenon, but an ideal imposed upon China by the West and Chinese thinkers enamored with the West.
(if you want to read the full article w/o paywall look up sci-hub and input the doi link)
From what I’ve read, LGBT people were treated tolerated and even treated very well during many parts of the Imperial Chinese eras, and many princes or rulers were themselves gay.