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I appeal to the polite freethinker, whether in the pursuit of gratifying passion, he hath not always felt a wonderful incitement by reflecting it was a thing forbidden. It is proposed as a great advantage to the public that if we discard the Gospel, all religion will be banished forever, and consequently those grievous prejudices of education, which under the names of virtue, conscience, honour, justice, and the like, so apt to disturb the peace of human minds (and) so hard to be eradicated by right reason or freethinking, sometimes during the whole course of our lives. Christianity is hateful because by laying restraints on human nature (it is) the great enemy of the freedom of thought and action. (Gullivers Travels and Other Writings, Jonathan Swift, pp 449-454)
"Soviet sexologists in the 1920s participated in the international movement for sexual reform. A pamphlet titled The Sexual Revolution in Russia stated:
Soviet legislation bases itself on the following principle: it declares the absolute non-interference of the State and society into sexual matters as long as nobody is injured, and no ones interests are encroached upon. Concerning homosexuality, sodomy, and various other forms of sexual gratification, which are set down in European legislation as offenses against public moralitySoviet legislation treats these the same as so-called natural intercourse. (Soviet Union in the 1920s: Scientific, not Utopian, www.workers.org)
The Communist Party did not merely scrap anti-sodomy laws. They felt it was necessary to forcefully tear down the walls that divided sodomy from the rest of society. Soviet Russia was by far the most significant power since the French Revolution to decriminalize sodomy. (People of the Moonlight in the Dawn of Revolution, www.workers.org)
The first demands for same-sex marriage, sex reassignment surgery, and the right to cross-dress were not made in post-Stonewall America but in Communist Russia as affirmed in the Workers World article, 1920s Soviet Union: Rights for Lesbians, Transgenders, Transsexuals.
It was also reported that masculinized, cross-dressing females were rewarded with influential positions of authority and influence throughout academia, the Red Army, and in the cultural arena, women of the masculinized type (cross-dressing army commanders, for instance) were considered with fascination and indulgence. (www.workers.org)
The same article bashes backward Christian-Judeo America for not allowing the mainstreaming of perversion:
That same year (1923) in the U.S., where anti-sodomy laws aimed to padlock closet doors, the FBI labeled anarchist Emma Goldman the most dangerous woman in America because of her vocal support for gay rights and other forms of social equality. (ibid)
From Lenin and Trotsky the line connects to Ernst Rohm, a sadomasochist sodomite and Hitlers right-hand man. "An icon for many gay activists today, Rohm was also a key player in the early gay movement as Progressive gay journalist, Johann Hari reveals:
Rohm was the founding father of Nazism. He believed that gay people were superior to straights and saw homosexuality as a key principle of his proposed Brave New Fascist Order. As historian Louis Snyder explains, Rohm projected a social order in which homosexuality would be regarded as a human behavior of high repute. (www.JohannHari.com)"
From Rohm the line descends to David Thorstadt, a prominent member of the gay rights movement, a Trotskyist, and founder of NAMBLA (North American Man-Boy Love Assoc.),who co-authored with John Lauritson, a history of the early gay rights movement in 1974. Entitled The Early Homosexual Rights Movement: 1864-1935″ Lauritsons history links the modern gay Stonewall Rebellion to its birth in Germany in 1864. It also details the linkage to socialism.
The communist Workers World Newspaper concurs with Thorstadt:
The first great wave of struggle to demand sexual and gender emancipation had taken place from 1869 to 1935. It began in Germany. It was a dynamic, expanding movement that grew to be international. (Rise of German Homosexual Emancipation Movement, www.workers.org)
Excerpts from "America Falling Into Hell: A Brief Timeline of the Gay Movement http://patriotsandliberty.com/?p=17661