I would also like to point out that the United States didn't actually legalize it through legislation. It was done via a court decision, and a bunch of libs jumped on the bandwagon afterwards.
I also have a huge problem with the way a lot of leftist discuss this issue, and their inability to separate our sometimes very reactionary culture from ideology, turning us into a hivemind. Change takes time and there is a lot of activism working to make things better. Hinging your opinion on us and on your own imperial projects on this is silly and dehumanizing.
I don't think this particularly answers the question though, or at least what I think it's asking. It's about why a party nominally committed to achieving communism is keen to implement sexuality-based hierarchies, not whether the population as a whole is homophobic (though I see why that is obviously relevant)
I wasn't trying to answer that question (I don't know why they haven't), just showing that it's not that the people there are just especially homophobic as some others in the thread are claiming.
But if I had to guess I'd say it's probably because attitudes have changed relatively recently and that it can take a while for that to translate into material social progress. Cuba had a lot of institutional homophobia in the past, but now their new constitution explicitly forbids discrimination on the basis of sexuality and gender identity, and they're in the works of legalizing gay marriage.
It's worth noting that people in China approve of gay marriage at about the same rate as Americans .
I expect it will be legalized sometime in the next few years.
I would also like to point out that the United States didn't actually legalize it through legislation. It was done via a court decision, and a bunch of libs jumped on the bandwagon afterwards.
I also have a huge problem with the way a lot of leftist discuss this issue, and their inability to separate our sometimes very reactionary culture from ideology, turning us into a hivemind. Change takes time and there is a lot of activism working to make things better. Hinging your opinion on us and on your own imperial projects on this is silly and dehumanizing.
I don't think this particularly answers the question though, or at least what I think it's asking. It's about why a party nominally committed to achieving communism is keen to implement sexuality-based hierarchies, not whether the population as a whole is homophobic (though I see why that is obviously relevant)
I wasn't trying to answer that question (I don't know why they haven't), just showing that it's not that the people there are just especially homophobic as some others in the thread are claiming.
But if I had to guess I'd say it's probably because attitudes have changed relatively recently and that it can take a while for that to translate into material social progress. Cuba had a lot of institutional homophobia in the past, but now their new constitution explicitly forbids discrimination on the basis of sexuality and gender identity, and they're in the works of legalizing gay marriage.