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.

  • @Giyuu@lemmygrad.mlOP
    6•2 years ago

    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.

    • Ratto
      5•2 years ago

      Yeah Google these days may as well just mask off and admit its another wing of the western propaganda arms at this point.

      Interestingly I’ve actually heard that the emperor regularly had male and female courtesans back in the day. Whether this absolves China of any homophobia is difficult to say as history has shown us around the world that the rich has the privilege to engage in activities outside of the established status quo at least in the west. Whether this applies to China in this period is something I can’t confirm 😔 however it does make me think a lot of the more socially Conservative values came from colonialism and possibly the views of others of the time.

    • @cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml
      2•2 years ago

      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.