Was rough times to be LGBTQIA+ those days (still is). Not sure about his personal persecution, I think he may have worked with enough people to not really care as long as long as you did your job, he seemed pragmatic, but idk.
At the time people pretty much everywhere saw the whole LGBTQIA+ thing as being a throw back to the caveman clubbing people over the head days or bourgeois decadence, and he had to bow to those views regardless of how he thought since he wasn't the lone rulemaker as popmedia would say.
The citation is actually from a Feinberg article that goes in to way more detail. That passage is kinda taken out of the greater context of how the laws were applied and used (mainly as a tool for arresting Nazis and Pedophiles, who in the 30s were both kinda socially intertwined with homosexuality).
Not to say that it wasn't bad, but it was a very complex issue that shows that they were terrible at seeing just what sexuality was and should never had disbanded the council of sexologists that wanted to legalize homosexuality on the basis of transgender women not being able to become "fully/biologically women" at the time and therefore needing protections for homosexual marriage.
See, Lenin fully decriminalized homosexuality though. Stalin re-criminalized it. I don't have any context or analysis to provide with that and I'd actually appreciate it if anyone has the knowledge to contextualize it, but I think it's worth mentioning.
Was rough times to be LGBTQIA+ those days (still is). Not sure about his personal persecution, I think he may have worked with enough people to not really care as long as long as you did your job, he seemed pragmatic, but idk.
At the time people pretty much everywhere saw the whole LGBTQIA+ thing as being a throw back to the caveman clubbing people over the head days or bourgeois decadence, and he had to bow to those views regardless of how he thought since he wasn't the lone rulemaker as popmedia would say.
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Stalin is cancelled for being a gamer
The citation is actually from a Feinberg article that goes in to way more detail. That passage is kinda taken out of the greater context of how the laws were applied and used (mainly as a tool for arresting Nazis and Pedophiles, who in the 30s were both kinda socially intertwined with homosexuality).
Not to say that it wasn't bad, but it was a very complex issue that shows that they were terrible at seeing just what sexuality was and should never had disbanded the council of sexologists that wanted to legalize homosexuality on the basis of transgender women not being able to become "fully/biologically women" at the time and therefore needing protections for homosexual marriage.
See, Lenin fully decriminalized homosexuality though. Stalin re-criminalized it. I don't have any context or analysis to provide with that and I'd actually appreciate it if anyone has the knowledge to contextualize it, but I think it's worth mentioning.
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