Was Homosexuality Illegal in Communist Europe?

The complex sexual geopolitics of the Eastern bloc

Communism tends to be equated with homophobia. It is often imagined as a backward force, putting on hold economic, political and social advancements, including the adoption of LGBT rights and the development of LGBT activism. As Dennis Altman wrote in 1971: “prejudice against homosexuality as ‘a bourgeois degeneracy’ became strongly imbued in Communist ...
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Was Homosexuality Illegal in Communist Europe?