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The Connection Between Communism and Homophobia
Margo Canaday is a history professor at Princeton who teaches about gender and sexuality. She's author of the book Queer Career, Sexuality and Work in Modern America. In retrospect, that association between communism and homosexuality "is completely bizarre," she says. World War II was a transformational event in U.S. history; it made space for all kinds of new openness.