Communism and LGBTQ rights
Left: New American Movement 1970s poster: "Gay liberation is impossible without socialist revolution. Socialist revolution is incomplete without gay liberation"
Right: Militarized Communist Party of Peru pamphlet, 2021: "We have to cleanse the VRAEM and Peru of brothels, of lunatics, of degenerate homosexuals, of degenerate lesbians, of drug addicts, [...]"
Right: Militarized Communist Party of Peru pamphlet, 2021: "We have to cleanse the VRAEM and Peru of brothels, of lunatics, of degenerate homosexuals, of degenerate lesbians, of drug addicts, [...]"
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Communist attitudes towards LGBTQ rights have evolved radically in the 21st century. In the 19th and 20th century, communist parties and Marxist–Leninist states varied on LGBTQ rights; some Western and Eastern parties were among the first political parties to support LGBTQ rights, while others, especially the post-Lenin era Soviet Union, some of its Eastern Bloc members, and the Marxist-Leninist East Asian countries harshly persecuted people of the LGBTQ community (especially gay men).