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Originally Posted by blankall
I've always found it very strange that many of the hardcore communist nations are anti-gay. In the west we associate gay rights groups with the left wing. I guess, when places like China turned to communism, the world, generally, was anti-gay. They then became locked into the doctrines they had at the time.
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Tolerance of non-traditional sexual identities and behaviours maps to liberalism, not leftism. Collective-minded societies often favour traditional values, and are typically hostile to what they see as selfish, individualistic behaviours. You’ll find a lot of these countries with laws against homosexuality also have strict penalties for things like adultery and illicit drug use. This is the case even in unreligious states like China, Russia, and Singapore.
Part of it is also politics. Since almost all of the countries that are tolerant of non-conventional sexual behaviours are in the West, regimes can bolster their anti-Western bonafides by denouncing homosexuality as ‘Western decadence.’