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Los Angeles Research Group

Toward A Scientific Analysis of the Gay Question

First Published: n.d. [1975].
Transcription, Editing and Markup: Paul Saba
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EROL Note: This pamphlet was described in a introduction to an much-edited version which was published in the Guardian, on September 3, 1975, as “written by the Los Angeles Research Group, a group of gay communist women, to ’combat the antigay line that is found in some segments of the communist movement.’”

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Introduction to the Second Printing

I. Methodology

II. Is Gayness a Response to Decaying Imperialism?

III. Is Gayness a Reflection of Petty Bourgeois Ideology?

A. Ideology
B. Escape
C. Individual Choice
D. Individual Solution
E. Periphery of Society
F. Strains & Self Indulgence

IV. Anti-Imperialism & Communists

V. Material Oppression

A. Historical Perspectives
B. Sexuality, Reproduction and Sex-roles

VI. Democratic Rights

VII. The Gay Movement

VIII. Conclusions

Appendix

Copy of RU Paper

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