• exocrinous
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    3 months ago

    No, the material conditions were the same. In the 1920s, the world was in the midst of a surge of queer awareness, knowledge, acceptance, and progress. The institute of sex research in Germany was doing transgender surgeries. Homosexuality was more accepted than it had been in centuries. And the Nazis were doing everything they could to change that, which they eventually succeeded in doing. The political climate around queer issues was the same as it is today. Stalin had the opportunity to be on the forefront of knowledge if he had only opened his eyes. And the USSR was on the cusp of increasing queer rights dramatically up until Stalin became the head of the government.