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Lavender & Red<br />
by Leslie Feinberg<br />
This book in progress, written in weekly installments in Workers World<br />
newspaper, explores the relationship over more than a century between the<br />
liberation of oppressed sexualities, genders and sexes, and the communist<br />
movement. You can read the entire, ongoing series online at:<br />
www.workers.org/lavender-red/<br />
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1. Rise of German Homosexual Emancipation<br />
Movement<br />
2. The love that dared to speak its name<br />
3. Lesbians on the front lines of fight<br />
for rights, liberation<br />
4. ‘The war to end all wars’<br />
5. Sexual freedom vs. fascism in Germany<br />
6. Gender and sexuality in czarist Russia<br />
Revolution in Russia<br />
7. Roots of Russian ‘homosexual subculture’<br />
8. Capitalism shakes the branches<br />
9. Naysayers pooh-pooh Bolshevik gains<br />
10. ‘People of the moonlight’ in the dawn of<br />
revolution<br />
11. Soviet Union in the 1920s: Scientific, not<br />
utopian<br />
12. 1920s Soviet Union: Rights for lesbians,<br />
transgenders, transsexuals<br />
13. 1930s USSR: Survival with setbacks<br />
14. 1930s Soviet Union: ‘Seismic gender shift’<br />
15. Progress and regression:<br />
Sex and gender in 1930s USSR<br />
16. ‘Can a homosexual be a member of the<br />
Communist Party?’<br />
Fascism vs. socialism in Germany<br />
17. Anti-gay terror in Nazi Germany<br />
18. Denazification in socialist Germany<br />
opened door to gay rights<br />
19. Same-sex rights in East Germany:<br />
Legal and material progress<br />
20. East Germany in the 1970s:<br />
Lesbian & gay movement blossoms<br />
21. East Germany: Forming of gay groups<br />
ignites church struggle<br />
22. Lesbians & gay men: Great gains in 1980s<br />
East Germany<br />
23. Late 1980s East Germany: Gay/lesbian<br />
clubs in Party, state<br />
24. Gains cut short by<br />
1989 counter-revolution<br />
25. Post-WWII Europe:<br />
Struggle for decriminalization<br />
Cold War ‘Lavender Scare’<br />
26. Beginning of post-war witch hunt:<br />
Before McCarthy, the Pentagon<br />
27. 1950: ‘Lavender scare’!<br />
28. 1950s witch hunt: Even McCarthy<br />
was gay baited<br />
29. What made Stonewall possible:<br />
Early resistance to state repression<br />
30. German movement inspired<br />
U.S. organizing<br />
Gay leftists organize Mattachine<br />
31. Young Harry Hay and the Wobblies<br />
32. Harry Hay heard ‘siren song<br />
of revolution’<br />
33. Harry Hay tried to ‘close book’ on his gayness<br />
34. Harry Hay: ‘Historical materialism<br />
in ¾ time’<br />
35. ‘Bachelors for Wallace’<br />
36. 1950: Gay leftists organize<br />
against Korean War<br />
37. When idea for gay political organizing<br />
finally ignited<br />
38. Mattachine: unmasking a ‘masked people’<br />
39. Pre-Stonewall gay organizing<br />
40. Harry Hay: Painful partings<br />
41. Finding the right word<br />
Lavender & Red Series<br />
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