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Berstein's speech
this may be relevant to add : https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bernstein/works/1895/wilde/homosexual.htm it's a 1895 text by Eduard Berstein (spd thinker who later became famous for his "revisionist" critique of Marx) that's more "modern" in its arguments than Bebel's 1898 speech. It may be interesting to mention its existence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:CB08:863A:3F00:38A7:A8AF:8711:E4C (talk) 17:45, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

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um..? is this article for real? or am I hallucinating? (unsigned comment by [user:152.163.100.73]) 03:51, September 30, 2005

Unbareable Bias
This article fits the classic mode of reactionary apologetics. It fails to mention many times that Labor/Socialism has gone to bat for the LGBT community. This is something I can testify to as both a gay man, labor activist, and self proclaimed socialist. ALthough I am not a wikipedian, I urge that this article either be nominated for deletion or else changed to be more accurate in the face of reality. A few simple changes to make would include the legalization of same-sex marriage in Catholic Spain following the rise to power of the socialists, the fact that notoriously gay Frederico Lorca was considered a martyr by both the scocialists and anarchist during the Spanish Civil War. The role of Unions in supporting civil rights movements in the United States (the UAW bankrolling the original civil rights movement and the excellent work done by the Teamster's Human RIghts Commmission. This article contains misleading and selective quotes.  No one mentions the role of homosexuals in the American socialist/labor movement, especially in regards to the pioneering work on gay rights by the  National Union of Marine Cooks and Stewards et al.  These absences are particularly disturbing, and make this article more of a hinderance than a help in understanding the issue.  I am not a wiki vet so I hope someone will use my information to reform this article or nominate it for deletion.  As it stands, it is a right wing hack piece.  If anyone has beef with what I have written, I may be contacted at caseyfoster05@gmail.com .   Casey  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.113.208.72 (talk) 06:45, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

 * I'd agree that relatively speaking generally Trade Unionists and Labourites (reformist Marxists) have been largely supportive of LGBT rights. (But this is not universally true) However, the same cannot be said about revolutionary Marxists. Even many contemporary Trotskyist groups are opportunistic when it comes to supporting LGBT rights. They may be involved in a lot of activism in order to expand the political force of their organisations, but on a personal level and in private it is not clear whether or not the core of the party are supportive of it.

 * Among the Communist-Stalinist parties, in my opinion the Chinese Communist Party is probably the most tolerant of LGBT issues, given that generally speaking local variants of communist ideologies are a fusion of communist principles with local cultures, and the fact that historically China has not been as homophobic as the West was. Mao Zedong was never explicitly homophobic, and Chinese Law never contained a single article that explicitly criminalises homosexuality, rather sexual offences are categorised under "lumpenised sexual behaviour". In 1996 the definition of "lumpenised sexual behaviour" is more clearly clarified and explicitly no longer includes homosexuality.

 * Jasnine (talk) 12:31, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

I have to agree with Casey. This article really doesn't have enough information on either socialism in general and how it relates to LGBT rights. For example, it does not mention Marx or Engels or any other theorists. It also does not mention that the Russian Revolution decriminalised homosexuality in 1917. Anyway, here's a good article that should help out considerably: http://www.newpol.org/fromthearchives?nid=79. I myself am a socialist and a LGBT person, so I find the idea that my political beliefs aren't supportive of my rights to be insulting. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.30.60.253 (talk) 02:31, 13 October 2010 (UTC) There's also a theory that Marx and Engels were never bigoted about LGBT people in the first place. The idea that they oppossed LGBT rights mostly comes from the treatise Origin of the Family, where the term for 'pederasty' was deliberately mistranslated as 'homosexuality' by Stalinist editors. The claim has yet to be proved or disproved, but you can read it about it in the March-April 2010 issue of the International Socailist Review. I also think that the article needs to make a more clear distinction between 'Communist' and 'Socialist'. When you compare the policies advocated by modern-day socialists and 20th-century communists, one will see quite a bit of difference. I've also noted that critics usually dismiss socialist ideas as 'Communist' in an attempt to smear the Left. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.30.60.253 (talk) 02:44, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Recent changes
I've made various changes to the article. The introduction seemed to be advancing the hypothesis that anarchists have supported sexual freedom (fair enough) where Marxists haven't, but the actual role of Marxists has been far more variable. For instance, I've mentioned Edward Carpenter, stressed that nothing of Marx's views on homosexuality has survived, but there's no reason to suppose that he shared Engels' bigotry. It also seemed to suggest that the legality of homosexuality in revolutionary Russia was an oversight. While it clearly had its opponents (e.g. Stalin), the Soviet authorities were clearly well aware that it was legal and at least tolerated it. I've also included a few examples of Marxist groups supporting LGBT liberation, and removed the mention of Oscar Wilde in the introduction, as he isn't widely thought of as an anarchist, and this is covered in detail later in the articles.

Two things which I'd like to know more about are Lenin and Trotsky's attitudes to sexual freedom (the article says they saw it as bourgeois deviationism, which may be true, but I've never heard of this), and the suggestion that the Freedom Socialist Party was initially homophobic (again, this may well be true, it just sounds unlikely given their current positions). Warofdreams talk 02:16, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I've contributed quite a bit to this article in the past. I think the topic is both interesting and important, and recognise that the page needs a lot of work, so I want to encourage others to jump in — thanks Warofdreams for your recent edits. :) However a couple of years as a wikipedian has taught me how difficult it is for pages on culture/religion/politics to be collaboratively edited in good faith. People often seem to feel that they have to defend "their team", and the pages become a battleground of opposing ideologies. Personally I hate this adversarial (or is that dialectical? :P) approach, and try avoid disputes altogether, which usually means staying away from sociopolitical pages like this one! That said, I'd like to comment on some of the changes made in the last edit.
 * The new opening sentence "..socialists are ususally associated with support for sexual minorities..." is, i think, wrong. It certainly isn't the view shared by such people living under repressive "socialist" regimes. Perhaps: "Socialist politics in the western world has, in recent times, come to be associated with a liberal view regarding sexual minorities and gender diversity".
 * Yes, that sounds good to me.

 * The following sentenced was removed: "The persecution of homosexual and effeminate males by socialist states has included castration, imprisonment, labor camps, and execution." This statement seems to be demonstrably true, and important enough to have a place in the introduction.
 * Um yes - actually, I just meant to move that statement and accidentally deleted it. Apologies.

 * The mention of Oscar Wilde was removed; however, his essay "the soul of man under socialism" has been very influential, and as the most famous 'homsexual' of his time I think he warrants a mention in the intro. I don't have a particular barrow to push about him being an anarchist, but he did say so himself: "I think I am rather more than a Socialist. I am something of an Anarchist, I believe...", and he definitely had the libertarian impulse that characterised anarchists from the rest of the left: "If the socialism is authoritarian; if there are governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if in a word, we are to have industrial tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first." "All modes of Government are failures", he maintained, and described social democracy as "the bludgeoning of people by the people for the people". He also supported the anarchist Haymarket martyrs. The point that needs to be made in the introduction is that the 'libertarian' left at the turn of the century advocated sexual freedoms while the 'authoritarian' left opposed them, and Wilde was very much in the former camp.
 * I think that this is the key problem with the article. In lumping all Marxists into an authoritarian left which opposed sexual freedoms, it ignores the Marxists - in the past probably a minority, but now demonstrably a majority - who have advocated them.  In terms of Wilde, it just seemed a little odd to mention him in the introduction - who AFAIK never campaigned for any sort of LGBT rights - so prominently, when there was an excellent section further down the article covering him.

 * The next sentence was altered from "anarchists" to "socialists" advocating sexual freedoms, which seems like revisionist history to me! Again, the point here is that there was a striking movement within broader socialism at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century that advocated of sexual freedoms; this movement was overwhelmingly anarchist, stemming from these anarchists' committment to individual freedoms in general. It was a libertarian impulse that the 'mainstream' left opposed. I hope you understand that I'm not trying to champion anarchism over marxism, just to accurately record history.
 * Yes, I think we agree that this should be covered clearly in the article. I'm just interested in drawing out the detail - that not all Marxists opposed sexual freedom, and that of course few Marxists still adhere to the idea of bourgeois deviationism (although if you were to include the Chinese or Cuban governments, this would of course be many more).

 * There seems to be a general softening of "most" and "largely" to "many" and "sometimes". I think the latter are weasel words which make the statements which contain them kind of meaningless. If we can't say that some phenomenon is generally the case, then let's remove the statement altogether. Nearly anything can be true "sometimes".
 * I've reviewed my edit. The only instances where I can see this softening are in the views of the left-wing movement in the early 20th century, where I feel it is dangerous to say anything of it "as a whole"; in the number of SWP members to have criticised RESPECT for its link-up with homophobic groups - which I believe, sadly, to only be a few, although I think it would be difficult to find a reference for this; and the views of democratic socialists in the early 20th century, where I agree a source is needed either way.

 * In the first sentence on Marx, right after stating that we can't know his thoughts about sexual orientation, you imply that he would "logically" support "LGBT liberation". This is a spurious assertion.
 * Well, that is the position of most current Marxists. Perhaps it could read "logically, if he had taken an interest in LGBT liberation, he would have taken the same position"?

 * The sentences : "While many European Marxists followed suit, some taking leading roles in campaigns for LGBT liberation..." and "the Freedom Socialist Party and the Alliance for Workers Liberty, have taken leading roles in LGBT liberation campaigns" need sourcing (in fact a lot of the article needs sourcing, not just your recent changes :) . But if true, these are important developments in the relationship between the left and queer/LGBT politics and deserve to be spelled out. What campaigns? What roles?
 * In the case of the AWL (in which I must declare an interest as a member), this includes spending most of the last 20 years leading the National Union of Students' LGBT (formerly LGB) Liberation Campaign, also being actively involved in the TUC LGBT conferences and campaigns, and supporting the activity of groups such as Al-Fatiha or the prominent UK activist Peter Tatchell (in terms of LGBT liberation). I'm assured that the FSP is also very active, but don't have any details.  Perhaps it should also mention the prominent trans activist Leslie Feinberg's membership of the Workers World Party.

 * The sentence "From the late 1950s in East Germany, homosexual acts between consenting adults ceased to be prosecuted" was changed to ""East Germany tolerated homosexuality from the late 1950s." These are very different statements! The first is verifyable; the second is general and speculative.
 * This seemed to me at the time to be a simple restatement, but reviewing it, I agree with you - it should be changed back.

 * Taken as a whole, your edits appear to softening and removing statments that could reflect badly on the traditional left. I hope you can agree that at least some of the changes I've noted above are problematic, as is a lot of the rest of the article.
 * My aim is to improve that article, and as I mentioned above, I was keen to explore how some Marxist groups have supported LGBT liberation, and have seen this as being within the Marxist tradition. I don't hold any brief for those Marxists who have advanced homophobic policies - in some cases, murderous ones - and I hope that you'll find my comments constructive.

 * On another note, I previously changed the name of this page but I'm still not happy with it. As a few transgender wikipedians have pointed out, the phrase "sexual orientation" doesn't encompass transpeople, and some of the content in the article directly refers to persecution of effeminate males. A more descriptive title might be "Socialism and sexual/gender diversity" but feels awkward. Any thoughts? ntennis 04:47, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
 * The article is quite short on trans issues anyway, but the only thought I have at the moment is "Socialism and LGBT liberation", but it's still not very succinct and that acronym LGBT isn't always readily understandable. Warofdreams talk 17:26, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for your reasoned response. I think it's definitely worth noting Leslie Feinberg as a notable labor activist and queer activist — maybe alongside Harry Hay? Also thanks for putting Edward Carpenter in there. I do feel that WIlde warrants a mention in the intro, but won't push the point if you disagree. You objected that he never "campaigned for LGBT rights"; well aside from the fact that he went to jail after delivering his famous impassioned defense of "male love" in court, and Neil McKenna's biography describes him as "militant precursor of the modern gay liberation movement" long before that speech, detailing his membership of the "Order of Chaeronea" which campaigned for the legalization of homosexuality, not to mention his writings (!!!), the sentence is about queers who contributed to socialism, not queer activists who contributed to socialism. His essay on socialism was and is widely read (it's available free online, and in my opinion is visionary, foreseeing the dangers of a kind of communism that later emerged under stalin).
 * It sounds like I should read up on him. I've read The Soul of Man under Socialism, but that was a fair few years ago.  Thanks for the pointers.

 * I probably overstated the "usually -> sometimes" softening effect in your edits; sorry about that. I'll try to better explain my point. Take the first sentence as an example:
 * WAS: While contemporary left-wing politics is often associated with support for sexual minorities and transpeople, socialism has generally taken a conservative position on such issues, and socialist governments have usually introduced repressive legislation upon coming to power.
 * IS: Contemporary socialists, like others on the left, are usually associated with support for sexual minorities and transpeople. In the past, socialists have taken a variety of positions, including some very conservative ones. Other socialists have declined to take a position on such issues. Many self-declared socialist governments have introduced repressive legislation upon coming to power.

 * So you're removing a "usually" from a comment that could paint socialism in a negative light (socialist states usually introduce repressive legislation) while inserting a "usually" in another that makes socialism look good (socialists usually support sexual minorities). But which of these is really "usually" true?

 * In the same sentence, "socialism has generally taken a conversative position" is watered down to a "socialists have taken a variety of positions". Well, so have christians, but both christianity and socialism have, historically, largely opposed sexual diversity — and, especially when adopted by large institutions, both have been responsible for atrocities against queers. Of course there are dissident voices within christianity and within socialism (ironically in both cases it's argued that the "authentic creed" supports queers), but I believe that the "big picture" should be recognised, and not turned into a "there are lots of positions" kind of non-statement.

 * I think that whatever parallels could have been drawn between religion and socialism in the past, the situation now is rather different. There are plenty of Christians who support LGBT rights, but they are less vocal and fewer in number than those who oppose them.  The situation among socialists is the reverse.

 * I like your suggestion in your initial comments on rewording the introduction. I disagree that "socialist governments have usually introduced repressive legislation upon coming to power" - many social democratic governments have repealed repressive legislation, and many authoritarian self-declared Communist states have maintained existing repressive legislation - still very bad, but not what the sentence initially said.  In addition, as the article goes on to say, revolutionary Russia - seen by Trotskyists as the only genuine socialist state to survive more than a few months - did legalise homosexuality.  I wonder what the position of the Paris Commune was?

 * As for Marx, I strongly disagree that he would have "taken the same position". You're implying that he would recognise the oppression of queers in the first place, whereas, based on his corresponce with Engels about Schweitzer, Ulrichs and the early homosexual rights movement, I think that It's very likely that Marx would have opposed the gay-rights struggle (though probably not as vehemently as the deeply disgusted Engels). Marx stated that “the relation of man to woman is the most natural relation of human being to human being” (in Early Writings), and certainly didn't object to Engel's call to root out all the "pederasts" (read: homosexual men or sodomites) from the movement. Despite Schweitzer's continuing admiration and promotion of Marx's writings, and his tireless dedication to the worker's struggle, Marx considered Schweitzer to be his "personal enemy". At a time when many were ostracising Schweitzer for his homosexuality, Marx suggested in a private letter to Engels, "You must arrange for a few jokes about [Schweizer] to reach Siebel, for him to hawk around to the various papers”; it's clear what kind of jokes he meant. In correspondence with Engels about another text promoting sexual freedoms (Gedanken über Gewissens Freiheit, "Thoughts on Freedom of Conscience"), Marx described the author disparagingly as "the faggotty prick" ("Schwanzschwülen").

 * Perhaps the best approach here would be to source a Marxist saying something similar to what I've added to the article, and counterposing some of this detail. I've not heard some of this detail before, and it does suggest that Marx had - at the very best - not given the subject any thought.

 * With respect, "European Marxists taking leading roles in campaigns for LGBT liberation" seems like a significant overstatment, especially after reading your explanation of the instances you had in mind. AWL, a "small Marxist group" with no mention of queer/LGBT on their wikipedia page, apparently supported the activity of Al-Fatiha and Peter Tatchell and were involved in student groups and conferences. It hardly sounds like a "leading role"!

 * I've now added something on this to the AWL article, but I try not to spend too much time on it as there's the danger of being partisan. The NUS LGBT liberation campaign is a fairly big deal; it is very visible in pretty well every militant campaign and regularly organises actions, etc, and the AWL really have played a big role in shaping it.  It was a major factor in my joining the group.  But I've not got a problem if you think this should go; I'm probably not in the best position to judge its relevance to the article.

 * By the way, I noticed you have an interest in sub-saharan africa. I'd be very interested in seeing an african section on this page!
 * ntennis 04:35, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Offhand, I could write about the extreme homophobia of Zanu-PF and SWAPO, and the move of the ANC from a similar position to a pretty positive one in the 1980s. I'll do some research and see if I can expand this - particularly to some trade union movements and some of the African socialists.

 * I think we're getting closer to agreement here - thanks for your constructive suggestions. Warofdreams talk 17:47, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

That stuff about africa would be would be great! The other big geographical black hole in the article is India, but I'm not in touch with too many sources there. I'll see if I can find something.

I think your suggested soluton about the "marxist" view on queer oppression is a good one. Do you know of such a quote? As for the socialist groups leading the LGBT struggle, I think it's enough to say that many socialist organisations in the west added gay lib to their political platform from the 1970s and 1980s. How does that sound?

I take your point about the 'socialist' governments; I wasn't really thinking about modern 'social democracy' as socialism, and I actually had communist states in mind. I'll rephrase it accordingly. I guess one of the difficulties is that it's not always clear exactly what we're referring to with the term 'socialism' — it gets bandied about by a pretty disparate bunch of people. It seems a stretch to think of the Labour/Labor parties of Australia, NZ and the UK as socialist, for instance. Can you spell out for me which social democratic governments you are thinking of?

By the way, if you're interested, here's a short article from a socialist website about oscar wilde's politics: http://www.redflag.org.uk/frontline/15/15wilde.html and from an anarchist website: http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/ws98/ws53_wilde.html - they pretty much agree that wilde's politics have been neglected in the modern popular imagination about the guy, but were actually a big part of who he was.

You've inspired me to do a bit more reading on this subject too. There's quite a bit of stuff out there. eg queers and marxism.

Cheers, ntennis 07:31, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Points of View (re:Mihnea Tudoreanu's recent edits)
...*Sigh*... Yes this page has "POV issues". It also has a big problem with a lack of references, and needs a lot more information from different parts of the world. However, the only interest from socialists seem to be defending their faith from anything that might reflect badly on it. This is not helpful when it means deleting demonstrably true information and replacing it with opinion (otherwise known as non-neutral POV), and non-statements like the new opening line:
 * There has never been a single, universally accepted stance towards sexual orientation within the socialist movement.

Yes, and there has never been a single, universally accepted stance towards anything with the socialist movement. The opening paragraph should be a kind of summary or overview. How about something more meaningful like: "Socialist movements have traditionally viewed social inequality as a function of economics, and the political struggles of sexual minorities and gender diverse peoples have at times clashed and at times coincided with socialist programs. Until the 1970s, socialism overwhelmingly opposed homosexuality and gender diversity, with a few notable exceptions such as the libertarian socialists of the late 19th and early 20th century."
 * I find it interesting that you wish to say "Until the 1970s, socialism overwhelmingly opposed homosexuality and gender diversity", while at the same time challenging my statement that "Today the overwhelming majority of socialists support gay rights". You claim I have no evidence for the latter (true, I thought it was common knowledge, at least for socialists in the West). But what evidence do you have for the former? As it stands now, the article goes out of its way to make socialists appear homophobic, as with the section about Marx that deduces he was a homophobe from a couple of words he said in an angry letter about a political rival. I think it would be far better to admit that Marx never considered the issue important enough to write anything about it, and his personal views were likely the same as those of the Victorian culture he lived in. -- Nikodemos 14:06, 30 December 2005 (UTC) (formerly Mihnea; I just changed my username)

The following statement was also removed from the intro:
 * Many self-declared socialist governments have introduced repressive legislation upon coming to power, extending in some cases to the persecution of homosexual and effeminate males by castration, imprisonment, labor camps, and execution.

This is not only true, but important information, and the specific instances are spelled out in the article. I will link the references to each individual claim in the intro (castration, etc) when I have a little time, unless there's some kind of dispute about the information. I think the sentence can be re-worded, eg. replacing "many self-declared socialist governments" with "communist states"?
 * Seems reasonable, as long as the intro also mentions that other self-proclaimed (democratic) socialists governments have strongly supported gay rights and even legalized gay marriage (e.g. the PSOE in Spain). -- Nikodemos 14:06, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

And the following was added:
 * Today the overwhelming majority of socialists support gay rights.

Where is the source for this? How many socialists are there worldwide and do an "overwhelming majority" of them really support gay rights? My subjective impression is a majority (not overwhelming) of socialists in the West today pay at least lip-service to "gay rights", communist states continue to oppose them (see, for instance, the section on Cuba). And when socialists continue to whitewash the very real instances of persection of sexual minorities by socialist movements and communist states, it doesn't engender confidence in gays and lesbians that there is any real commitment on the part of socialists to their struggles.
 * All mainstream socialists and a good portion of radical ones in the West support gay rights. Only some fringe groups oppose them. The article, as it stands now, tries to smear even openly pro-gay socialist groups by claiming that they weren't so before the 1960s (as if any political ideology was openly pro-gay before the 1960s), or gives more credence to rumors and accusations than to a party's own manifesto and statement of principles! (as with RESPECT in the UK) -- Nikodemos 14:06, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Forgive the grumpy tone of this post; I will return to sweet and reasonable ntennis in a couple of minutes :) ntennis 01:55, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * That's ok, but I am a bit exasperated with your apparently deep distrust of socialists in gay rights issues, which is utterly unfounded in my opinion. Before the 1960s, socialists typically followed the dominant cultural views on homosexuality (only extreme authoritarians like Stalinists and Maoists were more homophobic than the society they grew up in). After the 1960s, socialists have been among the most outspoken advocates of gay rights. Why is there hardly any mention of this in the article? Why is there no section on the role socialists played in the struggles of sexual minorities for the past 40 years? -- Nikodemos 14:06, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Neither my alleged "deep distrust" nor your deep faith in socialism's support for "gay rights issues" should be the basis for this page. Rather, we should aim towards referenced facts. Have you familiarised yourself with wikipedia's WP:NOR and WP:NPOV policies? However, in the interests of declaring our biases, I will describe where my politics lie: as a working-class person of countless generations, my sympathies are strongly with the poor and against capitalism, and I have many years of activism under my belt to prove it. As a queer however, history and much personal experience tells me that I'd be naive to place my faith in the Socialist movement to address queer oppression. Far from such distrust being "utterly unfounded" (?!?!), if you actually read the article you will see plenty of instances of socialist governments perpretating atrocities against queers, and socialist organisations expelling, vilifying and sidelining queers — in some instances they continue to do so, especially if the person in question refuses to maintain the fiction that left-wing goverments have always been our friends. Often, an aversion to homosexuality is one of the only things that left and right-wing governments have had in common politically! I'm not saying anything particularly radical here - there's a mountain of published material to back this up, even from socialist academics. See, for example this article by Jeffery Weeks (published in the New Internationist magazine), or any of the Socialism and Sexuality seminar series (eg. the 2001 series). Are you familiar with any of the published work on this issue?

I don't know why you are fixated on the 1960s as the golden age for socialists embracing gay rights. Again, read the article. In the 1960s gays were being expelled from major communist parties around the world. In Cuba they were being incarcerated in hard-labor "re-education" camps, with the communist party declaring that ‘all manifestations of homosexual deviations are to be firmly rejected and prevented from spreading’.

As for a "pro-gay" pattern from "Democratic Socialist governments": "Democratic socialism" is a term broad enough to have been applied to the governments of the UK and Australia, but who are no more progressive on the issues than any other western capitalist country. In fact, in the most populous "democratic socialist republic" in the world, India, homosexuality is illegal. Personally, I worry when you read statements of historical fact and call them attempts to "smear" groups that are currently pro-gay. Your words echo the right-wing Prime Minister where I live, Australia, in his response to calls from Aboriginal people to recognise the past injustices perpetrated by the White Australian goverment (see Stolen generation). When Howard says "why dwell on the bad things, we're not like that now", it's really a sleazy attempt to silence this history. Given that you recently deleted a large section on the entry on Lenin titled "criticisms of Lenin", I urge you to consider aiming toward balance and accuracy on wikipedia over a program of hiding unpalatable facts.

On another note, I find it much easier to follow discussion pages when writers present their entries in discrete sections, rather than interrupting each others' posts with rebuttals. This is especially true when indented block quotes are used (as I have done); it is unclear who is talking. Also, when you interrupt my post to rebut a comment I made further down the page, it is very confusing to others who would like to get involved in the discussion. Thanks. ntennis 07:45, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

P.S Happy New Year :) ntennis 07:48, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

p.p.s You are right, in my last suggestion for re-wording the opening sentence, "overwhelming" is too strong. How about "largely"? Alternatively, I am thinking of another way to introduce the subject. ntennis 08:51, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

 * "as a working-class person of countless generations, my sympathies are strongly with the poor and against capitalism, and I have many years of activism under my belt to prove it. As a queer however, history and much personal experience tells me that I'd be naive to place my faith in the Socialist movement to address queer oppression."

 * I have to agree. Though I would still stress the difference in the first place, between reformist and revolutionary socialists, in the second place, between socialists and anarchists, and in the third place, between socialists and communists of different regions.

 * Although most contemporary Trotskyists claim to support LGBT rights, I am somewhat skeptical and cynical about this, partly it is due to personal experience. I do not doubt that many grassroot members of Trotskyist organisations are sincere about LGBT rights, but I am not so sure about the core of these organisations. Being a Queer myself, I feel that I've not been treated equally and with sufficient respect simply on the basis of my sexuality/gender identity. Partly due to this factor I have now formally left Trotskyism, even though I'm still very much a socialist in the economic sense.

 * It is true that in the global scheme of things, LGBT rights is a relatively secondary issue, compared with say environmentalism or the Palestianian conflict. Nevertheless, it is still an important and serious issue, especially for those who personally identify as queer. In addition, I find that not only do some contemporary Trotskyist organisations don't spend enough resources on LGBT issues, which actually isn't the primary criticism I have at all, but that many core members of these organisations are not personally supportive of LGBT rights, which is a much bigger problem IMO. There is a difference between a queer activist and a queer who is a socialist activist, but with this second problem even being the latter (i.e. someone who is openly queer being fully accepted by a socialist organisation, even though his/her primary aim as a member of this organisation is socialist politics in general rather than queer rights in particular) becomes in practice quite difficult.

 * Due to these reasons I'm currently inclining more towards reformist socialism rather than revolutionary socialism. I find that while not all Trade Unionists and reformist socialists are genuinely supportive of LGBT rights, many do, and at the very least they are open and sincere about their views (whether it's positive or negative), unlike Trotskyist organisations which sometimes can function as sect-like small conspiratory groups.

 * It is partly due to LGBT politics that I now formally reject Trotskyism as a political ideology. I find that even the reformist wings of Communist-Stalinist parties, like the Chinese Communist Party, are much better when it comes to LGBT rights in general.

 * Jasnine (talk) 14:59, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

 * You might be wondering where I have gone off to since our old discussion above. Well, I had written a rather lengthy response the same day you posted your last comments, but my computer crashed and I lost everything I had typed. This frustrated me to such a degree that I did not come back here for days, and eventually I forgot about this article completely. I just noticed the article in my watchlist today, remembered our discussion, and came here to see what was happening. I feel I must congratulate you for your excellent rewrite and expansion of this article. Our old discussion is largely obsolete now, since there is no longer any POV issue. I will look over the article in greater detail and see if there is anything I can do to improve it further. Once again, great job! -- Nikodemos 00:13, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks Nikodemos. I don't know how I missed it earlier but I just saw your last comment. I am still working on the article and would appreciate any further thoughts. In particular, I feel the article is too long but am not sure how to reduce it; also, I'm not sure how to approach the "recent history" section. ntennis 04:51, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Just for the record, I don't think the article is too long at all. The only ways I could think of breaking it up, if that were necessary, would be by date or location, but sometimes its okay to have a long article, I think.  -Seth Mahoney 05:05, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Hello. I created this Wikipedia article, and I want to thank all the men and women that have greatly improved the article's writing and expanded the resources provided. Browned. Jan 2006. I hope that this article will honestly show the Socialist response to LGBT people; both good and bad. (unsigned comment by 216.239.8.22, 08:08, 5 January 2006).

Overhaul of article
OK I'm finally beginning to get my head around this rather enormous subject, and have been rewriting the article significantly (though nothing has actually been lost). I hope others find it neutral and better structured. I think the regional grouping of content is less useful than a historical and ideological grouping, so i've begun moving stuff from the country sections to more general sections above. The country stuff probably has a place at the end, but reduced, especially as it is often covered by the relevant "gay rights in..." article. ntennis 03:54, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

removed content
I'm removing content to shorten the article, but keeping some of it here "just in case":

 * In his book The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, Engels condems homosexuality among men of ancient Greece in two seperate passages, describing it as "morally deteriorated", "abominable", "loathsome" and "degrading". In his "Early Writings", he wrote that "the relation of man to woman is the most natural relation of human being to human being" . In correspondence with Engels about a text promoting sexual freedoms (Gedanken über Gewissens Freiheit, Thoughts on Freedom of Conscience), Marx described the author disparagingly as "that queer prick" ("Schwanzschwulen").

ntennis 07:40, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Lifelong friend of Goldman Alexander Berkman also wrote about homosexuality in his book Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist, written about his experience in prison in the U.S. from 1892 to 1906. When first encountering homosexuality he was disgusted, but he came to appreciate the existence of love in the harsh culture of prison, and spoke fondly and admiringly of a gay couple. He argued that radicals should not seek to destroy homosexuality as a capitalist vice, and recognised that homosexuals are found in every class.

ntennis 08:04, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Homosexuality was tolerated throughout most of Chinese history. Many Chinese plays and stories dealt with homosexual themes, in which love between two men was seen as as good or bad as love between a man and a woman.  It was also not uncommon for two men to enter into a long-term union similar to a marriage.  It was not until 1740 that a law was introduced to make homosexuality a crime, and this was tied to the Qing Dynasty promotion of heterosexuality as part of a larger program to ensure that men would become fathers.  However, the law was all but forgotten in later years.

Also moved russian stuff to Gay rights in Russia. ntennis 10:32, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

 * In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries many democratic socialists held the position that homosexuality was a disease that was the result of capitalism and its alienation of the worker. Yet, democratic socialists felt that they had a moral obligation to speak out against exploitation and injustices which did not solely stem from economic class. The result was that some notable socialists spoke out in favor of the legalization of homosexuality.

 * The Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw began to circulate a petition in an unsuccessful attempt to secure the release of Oscar Wilde who had been imprisoned for his homosexuality. Upon his release, Wilde would endorse democratic socialism and criticize the execution of the anarchists involved in the Haymarket Riot.

 * In Germany, the Social Democrats would create a coalition with Scientific Humanitarian Committee led by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld (who was Jewish, gay and a supporter of the Social Democrats) to push the legalization of homosexuality in exchange for a public campaign to encourage gay Germans to support the Social Democrats in parliamentary elections.

 * August Bebel gave two speeches in the German parliament calling for the legalization of homosexuality and comparing the laws against homosexual persons to the laws against Jewish persons. Later Social Democrat leaders such as Karl Kautsky, and Eduard Bernstein would support the work of Hirschfeld and the party official publication, Die Neue Zeit carried the news about the gay rights movement. Across Europe, Emile Zola, Albert Einstein and Leo Tolstoy also supported the legalization of homosexual relations between consenting adults in private. The embryonic gay rights movement would be crushed in 1933 with the rise of fascism in Germany that burnt down the Institute for Sexual Research as one of its first acts when it gained power.

Most of above has been kind of covered in earlier sections; some may need to go back in. ntennis 11:14, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

New Zealand section
The section on New Zealand doesn't cite sources and it doens't look very neutral either, I have a copy of the SAL's pamphlet "Homosexual Law Reform: A Union issue" which I'll find and if the information matches that in the article (which I think it does, been a while since I read it) I will add that as a source, and a souce for the statement about the SWO can probably be found online (I'll try Google in a minute) the rest of it I'm not so sure of, "some 'workerist' leftists" is no better than "some people" the article should state what group or individuals this refers too. If there are no refrences a week from now I'll remove the unsourced statements, everyone cool with that? Lossenelin 05:56, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Go for it! I contributed a lot to this article but sort of ground to halt at the bottom. I think the "1985 - present" section is a bit random, and the whole article is probably too long... I don't think a seperate sections for each country can really be justified, but I didn't want to lose some of the information there. Anyway, the changes you suggest would be an improvement! :) ntennis 08:14, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Changed one detail in this section so it now discusses 'anti-abortion' and 'pro-abortion' groups. If one wishes to use the term 'pro-choice', one should also use the term 'pro-life' instead of 'anti-abortion', to be NPOV, although I think the other generic terms are even more NPOV. --NZUlysses 07:51, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

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some can we come to the conclusion...
The homosexuality is mostly connected to socialism (in a social conservative) or liberals and leftists most likely to support gay rights despite historically communist countries persecuted gays (nowadays, they don't)?--Dark paladin x 22:57, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Actually from the sounds of it, many people in Russia are against gays (gay rights parades in Moscow are attacked by rioters), China doesn't allow it, in a lot of Eastern Europe it is "taboo" amongst the people but officially legal (just so they can join the EU), In North Korea they claim to "consider it a disease but do not discriminate against gay people", but then they claim a lot of things. Cuba apparently deported some North Koreans for homosexual behaviour, and don't like it. 86.142.175.177 (talk) 17:17, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

 * China nowadays DOES allow homosexuality, it was recognized around 2001 and was removed from mental disorder list in 1999. Cuba is currently looking into more of gay rights and Russia nowadays is nowhere near leftist. I said they "historically persecuted them," meaning the persecuted them in the past. --Dark paladin x (talk) 23:43, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Brandt
AFAIK, Brandt never belonged to the WhK and was opposed to Hirschfeld's point of view about the third sex from the beginning. He only collaborated with Hirschfeld on the subject of eliminating §175. --Ecelan (talk) 17:45, 17 August 2008 (UTC) See Adolf Brand --Ecelan (talk) 20:41, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Che Guevara, UMAP - Revolutionary Cuba
I don't yet have specifics (at least not well-sourced specifics), but wasn't Guevara and the Cuban government in general pretty homophobic? The work camps (Military Units to Aid Production) held lots of gays, and Guevara was himself fairly well-known for his contempt of such "unmanly" behavior. Can't promise I'll be able to do a good job on this anytime soon, but it needs entry in this article. If Cuba's treatment of LGBT individuals doesn't fall under this category, almost nothing does. -- Zen Swashbuckler -- (talk) 20:48, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

 * It was in there somewhere, and still is in the Spanish translation of this article . People have been deleting material to hide what their favorite ideology did. Maybe you can recover it looking into the history of the article. --Ecelan (talk) 19:26, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

 * Used free translator and some spare time to lift the Spanish version and put it in here. Could use some more details, but it's at least a good start on pointing out that not everything connecting these two topics is roses and cinnamon buns.  -- Zen Swashbuckler -- (talk) 22:03, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Anarchism
I changed Libertarian socialism for anarchism as the information on that section only dealt with the relationship of anarchism with LGBT rights. The title Libertarian socialism will have been more appropiate if that section would have included positions and activism on LGBT rights also from libertarian socialist positions such as autonomism, council communism or the like.--Eduen (talk) 05:28, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

The de-jure Mainstream socialist parties.
Many mainstream "Socialist" parties have adopted Gay rights and supported them, examples being the social democratic party of Germany and the Labour party. However it is to be noted that neither are effectively socialist in anything other then name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Onthehook (talk • contribs) 15:17, 2010 April 30

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homosexuality beyond LGBT rights
I see that page Socialism_and_LGBT rights covers a bit more then just LGBT rights. As LGBT+ realities in relation to socialism(s) go beyond just specific LGBT rights, I would suggest that the page has more general title like Socialism,_homosexuality_and_LGBT_rights... Ideally page would be even better named: Relations_of_socialism,_homosexuality_and_LGBT_rights (as there is no single context of socialism but obviously many), but I am aware that it would be maybe too wordy. What others think of this? (Similar situation with Communism and LGBT rights) so I left a comment there also -- Zblace (talk) 19:33, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

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Thérèse Bonney

Thérèse Bonney (born Mabel Bonney; July 15, 1894 – January 15, 1978) was an American photographer and publicist. She was best known for her images taken during World War II on the Russian-Finnish front. Her war effort earned her the decoration of the Croix de Guerre in May 1941, and one of the five degrees the Légion d’honneur. She published several photo-essays, and was the subject of the 1944 True Comics issue "Photo-fighter."

Early life and education
Mabel Thérèse Bonney was born in July 15, 1894, in Syracuse, New York. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of California, Berkeley in 1916 and a master's degree the following year from Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She settled in Paris and studied at the Sorbonne from 1918–1919, publishing a thesis on the moral ideas in the theater of Alexandre Dumas, père. She earned a docteur-des-lettres degree in 1921. She thus became the youngest person, the fourth woman, and the tenth American of either sex to earn the degree from the institution. She was also the first American to receive a scholarship from the Sorbonne. After graduation she received multiple sources of financial aid, including the Horatio Stebbins Scholarship; the Belknap, Baudrillart, and Billy Fellowships; and the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation Oberländer grant in 1936, which allowed her to study German contributions to the history of photography.

Career
Beginning in 1925, she thoroughly documented the French decorative arts through photography. At this time, most of the photographs were not taken by Bonney herself, but rather gathered from sources such as the collections of fellow photographers, photo agencies, architects, designers, stores, and various establishments. An ardent self-publicist, Bonney acquired the images directly from the Salon exhibitions, stores, manufacturers, architects, and designers of furniture, ceramics, jewelry, and other applied arts as well as architecture. She sold the photographic prints to various client-subscribers primarily in the U.S. (a small-effort precursor to today's illustrated news agency) and charged fees for reproduction rights in a more traditional manner. She typed captions and glued them to the backs of the photographic prints. These photographs, sometimes garnered without permissions, were widely published — both with and without published credits.

She attended the 1930 "Stockholmsutstäliningen" (Stockholm Exhibition) and gathered photographs there. While in the Netherlands, she collected images of contemporary Dutch architecture.

After her decade-and-a-half activities in publicity and the photography of the decorative arts and architecture by others, Bonney took up photography herself and became a photojournalist. Her concerns with the ravages caused by World War II informed her images, which focused on civilians. Her early photographs focused at first on the individuals at the Russian-Finnish front. For her documentation of this demographic, she was granted the Order of the White Rose of Finland medal for bravery. She also traveled through western Europe during the war, taking photographs of children in dire conditions. A collection of the images were shown at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1940 and later published in her 1943 book Europe's Children. Other activities included serving with the Croix-rouge (French International Red Cross).

Toward the end of her life, Bonney donated her estate of furniture to her Alma mater in Berkeley, California, and photographs and negatives — many duplicates of one another — to a number of other institutions in the U.S. and France. Other documents and books were donated to St. Bonaventure University by Ralph King.

In France, approximately 3,000 of her existing negatives are part of the collection of the Caisse Nationale des Monuments Historique et des Sites (CHMHS), formerly stored in Paris and today in St. Cloud. (In 2000, the CHMHS became the Centre des monuments nationaux [CMN].) The CHMHS archive has been digitally copied to save the images, due to the deteriorating negatives. Approximately 2,000 negatives and 1,500 prints are a part of the collection of the Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris. And 3,000 negatives exist in the Fort de Saint-Cyr, Montigny-le-Bretonneux (Yvelines).

In the U.S., approximately 4,000 vintage photographic prints were donated to the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City, initially organized in the 1990s with funds from the Smithsonian Institution Women's Council (SIWC) by archivist Mel Byars. But not all exist today. Her extensive collection of World War II photographs, photographic portraits of designers and architects, paintings by 20th-century artists, and her furniture (including examples by Pierre Chareau) was donated to the University of California, Berkeley. Her personal papers and photographic archives are available at the university's Bancroft Library, and other objects are at the Berkeley Art Museum. Some 6,200 photographs are held by the Photography Collection of the New York Public Library, including large numbers of images from Finland.

Personal life
Bonney never married. She claimed to have adopted a child, but legally did not. She provided a false date of her birth, which has since been corrected by an extant birth certificate, a copy held by a biographer, Claire Bonney. She died in Paris on January 15, 1978.

Exhibitions

 * "War Comes to People: History Written with a Lens by Therese Bonney," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1940.
 * "Selections from the Thérèse Bonney Collection of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum," International Center for Photography, New York, 1976.
 * "Paris Recorded: Thérèse Bonney Collection," Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, 1985.
 * "Aren't They Lively?: An Exhibition of the Bequest of Thérèse Bonney, Class of 1916, University of California," Berkeley Art Museum, June–September 1992.

Works

 * With sister Louise Bonney. Buying Antique and Modern Furniture in Paris. New York: Robert M. McBride and Company, 1929 | Library of Congress NK949.P27.B6
 * With sister Louise Bonney. French Cooking for American Kitchens. New York: Robert M. McBride and Company, 1929 | Library of Congress TX719.B673
 * With sister Louise Bonney. Guide to The Restaurants of Paris. New York: Robert M. McBride and Company, 1929 | Library of Congress TX637.B6
 * With sister Louise Bonney. A Shopping Guide to Paris. New York: Robert M. McBride and Company, 1929 | Library of Congress DC708.B55
 * Remember When: A Pictorial Chronicle of the Turn of The Century and of The Days Known as Edwardian....From The Collection of M. Therese Bonney. New York: Coward McCann, 1933 | Library of Congress N7592.B6
 * Europe's Children, 1939 - 1943, New York: Rhode Publishing, 1943 | Library of Congress D810.C4 B68 1944
 * Rattray, R. F. with photographs by Bonney. Bernard Shaw: A Chronicle. New York: Roy Publishers, 1951 | Library of Congress PR5366.R3

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As this article is a little more complex, I'm not going to throw Infoboxes into the mix just yet. But, because I'm to this point in the lineup, I'm gonna make them here. When the article gets long enough to use them, or the stations break off separately, just copy/paste. JPG-GR 04:00, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
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Talk:Kolchak: The Night Stalker

The New Night Stalker
So anyone catch the new revival, or re-imagining Kolchak? I saw the preview clips on the web, formed my opinions, and then saw the last 45 minutes of the pilot, and had my opinions confirmed.

“Re-imagining a classic series” usually means removing all charm, lightheartedness, and uniqueness of the original series, and replacing it with sex, gore, more sex, and immature concern for being considered serious art. Witness the redone Battlestar Galactica.

As I was watching, I had two thoughts. First, this is so different from the original series, why bother with the franchise? All it will do is confuse people, and anger the loyal fans. Remember—fans pay the bills.

Second, it seems more like an episode of the X-files, or a cross between the X-files and The Lone Gunmen. Same camera angles, same pacing, same lighting, and the same characters (believing guy, skeptical female), and same feel. So why not call it “ X-files: Los Angeles ?” You have the name recognition and the ready-made fan base, all without poisoning the original series?

Yeah, I know it is on ABC, and not Fox Broadcasting Company , but any good lawyer and enough money can get you anything you want.

There is too much cannibalism going on, such as the movies based on classic TV shows that has been cascading for about a decade now. Also, attempts at reinventing classics, such as “Planet of the Apes” and “Battlestar Galactica,” both of which bear a pale resemblance to the original series. The worst offender was the film “I, Robot.” I grieve for the people who saw the film, then bought Asimov ’s book, and got confused.

All of these new series are strong enough to be their own franchise, and if they weren’t, then don’t make them. There is no reason to go grave robbing a cancelled series, and take their names in vain.

Señor Cardgage 03:53, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I, too, caught this incarnation of Night Stalker, having not seen the original. My understanding is that the 2005 series borrows from The X-Files, which in turn borrowed from the original Kolchak: The Night Stalker.  Frank Spotnitz was a chief creative force in The X-Files and the Night Stalker revival/reimagining/whatever-you-call-it, so the similarity seen in the two is probably as much his responsibility as anyone else's.  I do agree with your points, Señor Cardgage, about both the intellectual cannabilism and the validity of creating the new series as an independent franchise.  I say this, though, even as I admit to liking remakes in general that honor the creative spirit of the original work and provide an innovative spin on the original.

 * The new series was very dark in tone to me, which doesn't detract from quality in my mind. But also, it was literally too dark to see some of the action of the episodes, proving a bit of a stumbling block.  And like The X-Files before it, I could tell there were quality elements to be found, but it was a show that would have to grow on me a bit.  Turns out, it didn't get the chance.

 * Also, I like the new Battlestar Galactica, but that's for another talk page. — ArkansasTraveler 14:57, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Talk pages are for discussion of the article and related Wikipedia activities. It's not a place to host your blog on what you hate about modern television.  This isn't a fan appreciation site, it's an encyclopedia. Canonblack 17:18, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

The 1974 show
I'm slowly going through and mapping out Kolchak's personal life through the two movies and the television series. I thought that this would provide an intersting insight into the character. What do you guys think? -- BBlackmoor (talk), 2005-10-31 T 02:06:05 Z
 * I think this is an excellent idea. Before someone complains that you're creating a Carl Kolchak article that will be too long and should be spun into its own article, there really isn't a lot of detail about these characters' pasts.  Most of the characterization was in the performances, not in the writing, and a lot of character history that was introduced in the scripts tended to be ignored or discarded later at the writers' convenience (e.g., Gail Foster was the love of his life and he wanted to marry her, yet she's never mentioned again after the initial film).  But it would be useful to gather whatever there is and present it in one place. Canonblack 17:25, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

I have updated the image for the Night Stalker DVD cover, and I have moved the Primetime Thursday template to the section devoted to the 2005 series. -- BBlackmoor (talk), 2005-10-31 T 15:26:10 Z

Spoilers? From 1974? Are you kidding?
Someone wants to add "spoiler warnings" for Night Stalker movies from thirty years ago. Adding a "spoiler warning" for a movie from 30 years ago is simply ridiculous. Personally, I'd cap "spoiler warnings" at 30 days, but 30 years is clearly way, way past the point of meriting a "spoiler warning". -- BBlackmoor (talk), 2005-12-9 T 03:00 Z

 * Spoilers aren't time-sensitive. If you don't think that the template should be used like that, general Wikipedia consensus disagrees; see what other articles Template:Spoiler and Template:Spoilers  are used on.  -Sean Curtin 07:17, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Of course spoilers are time-sensitive. Things "spoil" on their own when they are old enough. You can't "spoil" them further. Darth Vader is Luke's father. Rosebud is the sled. Dil's a dude. The logical result of having things kept supposedly "fresh" forever is that you'd have "spoiler warnings" plastered all over every article devoted to anything fictional. I hope we can all agree, that is simply ridiculous. -- BBlackmoor (talk), 2005-12-9 T 07:55 Z
 * And yes, I can see rom your links that there are a few people who have foolishly plastered "spoiler warnings" on works of fiction even older than Night Stalker. I am not going to make it my mission in life to correct that nonsense, but I can certainly put forth an effort to keep such foolishness out of this article. -- BBlackmoor (talk), 2005-12-9 T 08:00 Z
 * Sorry, totally disagree with Bblackmoor. Kolchak is a cult success, but there are a number of people who've heard of it but never seen it or who have never heard of it.  If you think otherwise, you're spending too much time with genre geeks (I am one, it's not meant as an insult).  The release (finally) of the entire series on DVD opens up the series to a new audience and a new generation of potential fans.  Do you want to spoil it for them?  Despite its age, The Night Stalker is still a very watchable film, and I still recommend it to people.  I certainly wouldn't want plot details spoiled for me if I was watching it for the first time.  That said, I don't see anything in the article that would actually qualify as a spoiler, except perhaps for labelling Janos Skorzeny as a vampire or mentioning immortality-through-alchemy, but anyone picking up the DVD is going to know that just from reading the back cover notes. Canonblack 17:29, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I concur. I have only recently discovered "Kolchak" and I love it. Not to mention there are literally thousands of films and books that I have never seen because of my young age. Any time you are gouing to reveal a plot you need that warning, in case some people don't want to know it in advance. This is true if the series is 30 or 100 years old. ( A rundhati Bakshi (talk • contribs)) 19:24, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I did some work on several Dickens articles around the turn of the year, and even those have spoiler warnings. That's 130 to 160 years ago. Canonblack 04:36, 6 March 2006 (UTC) [EDIT] Plus, the items BBlackmoor mentions (Darth Vader, Rosebud, Dil) were spoiled by the body of pop culture references, and anyone coming along now who hasn't seen those revelations has already had it ruined for her by the repetition of those references.  Other works, such as cult TV, classic lit, etc., have not been so exposed.  Even so, I would still put spoiler warnings on articles for those "ruined" stories, simply because there may be a handful of individuals who have been oblivious to the pop cultural revelations, or because someone not oblivious may not know all the details of the story or those identity revelations and may still want to see it for herself. Canonblack 13:52, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

"Unwilling to reprise"
In light of McGavin's recent passing, I was perusing this page and was struck by the phrase "unwilling to reprise his Kolchak character." Does this mean he was asked to actually REPRODUCE THIS SPECIFIC CHARACTER in the X-Files? This phrasing suggests that he was, and that the copyright was cool with it, but that McGavin, personally, felt sorta iffy about this and didn't want to go that far (for whatever reason). If this is so, I think it should be rewritten as such, and if not, some clarity is in order. Wencer 06:36, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Agreed. I don't recall Carter actually trying to shoehorn Kolchak into The X-Files, but McGavin was recorded as stating he had no interest in revisiting Kolchak.  I think this is two separate ideas that were confused by the writer, or perhaps Carter pitched the idea to McGavin as a Kolchak-like character, and McGavin insisted that the character not be like Kolchak.  This needs not just clarification but also source citations. Canonblack 17:38, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Hope I'm not being too rude jumping in the conversation here, but that's right about McGavin being asked to reprise his "Kolchak" character for the X-Files and not wanting to do so. (Just call me 216)
 * Okay, but we need a source for verification. Can you link a website that has that information?  Not to sound insulting or distrustful, but your say-so isn't proof.  We need something like a news story or a quote by someone involved with the programme. Canonblack 04:34, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

"Unwilling to reprise" earlier
I have a source that makes the following claim: When the CBS Late Movie reruns were a huge hit, ABC wanted to revive the third TV movie that had been previously jettisoned in favor of the weekly series; McGavin said no because of the way the network had treated the series (his view). How are we to reconcile this with his having already (according to our article; I did not encounter the film [singular deliberate; just wait] until much later, and I do not recall the CBS repeat run missing four episodes) provided in-character voice-overs for a pair of ersatz movies cut from the series? Besides, I am aware of only one such film, Crackle of Doom. Can the other be documented? Ted Watson (talk) 21:04, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Missing Scenes?
According to the article, the Jimmy Stacks scenes were restored to The Night Strangler prior to the DVD release. However, I have the Universal DVD and there are no such scenes, nor do I see any options to view such scenes. Is this just factually inaccurate, or am I missing something?

 * Yes, I also feel that this is an error. I own both the individual Night Stalker/Night Strangler dvd as well as the series compilation, and neither contain the Jimmy Stacks character.  Is there a chance that a UK release is in existence?  Otherwise I would suggest dropping the claim. Pjg1066 (talk) 17:51, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Unsourced original research
I've removed all of the following from the article, for reasons outlined below:

"Nicolas Cage credits Kolchak: The Night Stalker for his inspiration in producing the new TV series, The Dresden Files, about a private detective/wizard who investigates crimes involving the supernatural.

The impact of Kolchak in popular culture has been substantial. The following is but a partial list of how widely this series influenced other creative artists and subsequent projects:

 * As part of their "Flashback" series in 1997, Marvel Comics published a one-shot comic book called Venom: Seed of Darkness Minus 1. In this story about the Spider-Man comics characters, reporter Eddie Brock investigates a series of strange cases with possible supernatural ties. In one scene he goes to a bar and meets with a very Kolchak-like reporter who bemoans that his career was ruined by investigating stories that were out of the ordinary. He warns Brock that he is heading down the same path.
 * An episode of the animated television series Justice League Unlimited (Season 3) called "Fearful Symmetry" had a reporter named Jerry appear in a coffee shop and start asking questions of another character; the reporter looked like Kolchak, with a light blue suit and straw hat, and talked in the "Kolchak" style. The same episode features Question, a tightly-wound conspiracy-theorist who is a mixture of Kolchak and Mulder.
 * The 1987-1988 Fox network television series Werewolf featured the adventures of Eric Cord (played by John J. York), a reluctant werewolf on a quest to rid himself of his curse by killing the originator of his "bloodline." The show's recurring werewolf villain, Janos Skorzeny (played by Chuck Connors), was named after the vampire encountered by Carl Kolchak in the original Kolchak TV movie The Night Stalker.
 * In the miniatures game Mechwarrior: Age of Destruction, a pilot with the surname "Kolchak" is shown as piloting a 'Mech called a "Night Stalker."
 * In the Corner Gas episode "All My Ex's", Hank refers to Lacey's ex-fiance as Kolchak, implying he is a stalker.
 * In the Italian Martin Mystery comic-books, one of the episodes is about a vampire who is hunted by a police inspector.
 * In the MMORPG Shadowbane, the founder of the Nighstalker order is a man called Colshak.
 * A "regulation Paranormal Investigation Hat" appears throughout the nonfiction Encyclopedia Horrifica, in which the author investigates real-life sightings of "vampires, ghosts, monsters, and more." The hat is similar to Carl Kolchak's trademark raffia porkpie hat.
 * Kolchak makes a brief appearance in Scarlet Traces: The Great Game, investigating rumors of a vampire in Britain.
 * Sylvester McCoy's portrayal of the 7th Dr Who bears more than a passing resemblance to the Kolchak character, due not only to McCoy's acting style but also to the similarities between the the two characters' costumes."

None of these is sourced, and most rely on similarities and the same name; sorry, but that's just not good enough. We need reliable sources to draw these conclusions for us as we cannot do that for ourselves. Some (Martin Mystery and Sylvester McCoy, for example) are particularly limp. Please feel free to adequately source these references before replacing them. -- Rodhull andemu  23:23, 10 January 2009 (UTC) ___________________________________________________________________________________

The characterization of Carl Kolchak removed
I commented out The characterization of Carl Kolchak for two reasons. First, there was far too much detail given. A simple description of the character should be sufficient. Including specific incidents and numerous quotations goes too far and starts to approach copyright infringement. Second, all the material listed is from the TV movies and not the actual series. The article is about the series and so the description of the character should be about the character as he appears in the series. There is no guarantee of continuity between the movies and the series. I'm leaving the material in but commented out because some of it may be incorporated into articles about the movies or perhaps a separate article about the character Carl Kolchak if one is created. I will continue to review the material, move what seems appropriate to other sections or articles and delete what seems to be too detailed.--RDBury (talk) 12:34, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Finished this review, merged about half of the material into other sections or articles. Removed all quoted lines and alternate endings from novelizations. The Night Strangler should probably be split into it's own article but not by me.--RDBury (talk) 14:33, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * The new article has been created by Floggolozzo (thanks). See The Night Strangler (telemovie).--RDBury (talk) 21:11, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Question on origins
Hello, I'm here copyediting the article as part of my duties with the Guild of Copyeditors. I have a question. This section states:

"The Kolchak character originated in an unpublished novel, The Kolchak Papers, written by Jeff Rice. In the novel, Las Vegas newspaper reporter Carl Kolchak tracks down and defeats a serial killer who turns out to be a vampire named Janos Skorzeny. Although the main protagonist in the novel uses the name 'Carl,' the book reveals that his birth name is 'Karel'."

"The novel was finally published by Pocket Books as a mass-market paperback original under the title The Night Stalker with a Darren McGavin photo cover to tie in with the movie. The book, as well as the novelization of the second television movie, was republished by Moonstone in 2007 as an omnibus edition called The Kolchak Papers."

We start off stating that it was unpublished, then in the next paragraph say it was published not once but twice. I'm assuming the original author meant that the novel was unpublished at the time the movies first aired, but that's unclear. Can someone shed some light? Also, when was the Pocket Books edition put out exactly? — e. ripley\talk 19:35, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I've basically finished copyediting the article, beyond the contradiction that needs to be cleared up as I mentioned above (and also the references need some work). Once that's done, then I'll change the GOCE review tag above to a completed tag. — e. ripley\talk 21:05, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Cleared up the contradiction myself, though the references still need some work. Marking this as done. — e. ripley\talk 14:56, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

"Miss Emily"
Ruth McDevitt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_McDevitt), "Elderly Woman" in first episode, Emily Cowles (Miss Emily) in later episodes. Is it worth noting that the elderly lady in the first episode (The Ripper) who's letter to the "Miss Emily" advice column proves instrumental in Kolchak tracking down the Ripper is the same lady that actually plays Emily Cowles aka "Miss Emily" in later episodes? Swampy 1.144.96.51 (talk) 03:42, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Abbythecat (talk) 01:25, 11 January 2017 (UTC)As a note, the "elderly woman" in RIPPER is "Miss Angulalis" (not sure of spelling, but that's what Kolchak calls her). As for Miss Emily, she's a different character. Going through all the episodes, and combining all the names used for her, her full name is (get ready!) "Miss Emily Edith Cowels Cowles Fenwick"! Edith is usually used for Emily (like Jack is used for John) and the Cowels name is just a different spelling (Cowles). Fenwick comes from RIPPER (she's on vacation in that one). Perhaps Fenwick was her married name at one time. AbbythecatAbbythecat (talk) 01:25, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Contradiction
I've placed a contradiction template because the paragraph immediately following the template appears to contradict itself. The offending passage: "Because of this re-purposing, four episodes were removed from the syndication package and remained unavailable in their original format until Columbia House released them on VHS. Neither has been released on home video."

In addition to a number problem ("neither" compares negatively two objects or groups, yet you are talking about four episodes), you've just said that the missing episodes were released on VHS by Columbia House, then you unequivocally state that they've never been released on home video. That is an absolute, fist-in-the-face contradiction. Either the missing episodes were released on home video, or they were not. One of these statements has got to go. 12.233.147.42 (talk) 01:38, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I've removed offending sentences - I have no idea which parts of it were right. ツStacey (talk) 14:02, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
 * The topic of the "two" was the two KtNS CBS Late Night Movies they made by clobbering together 4 original episodes so that they could get 2 tv-movie 90-minute length items to run on Friday nights on CBS at 11:30 pm EST back in the Eighties. And (rightfully so) neither of those hack-jobs was issued on home video. 68.19.6.187 (talk) 13:55, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

Abbythecat (talk) 01:18, 11 January 2017 (UTC)Just a note, CBS FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES never ran CRACKLE OF DEATH or DEMON AND THE MUMMY. These were made in 1976 and never aired on CBS. Source is the Dawidziak KOLCHAK book. AbbythecatAbbythecat (talk) 01:18, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Abbythecat (talk) 01:39, 11 January 2017 (UTC)BTW, if you can get your hands on the FIRST VHS tape release of NIGHT STALKER: TWO TALES OF TERROR, you'll see the original opening theme, just the words THE NIGHT STALKER appear on screen. But be warned -- you have to get the FIRST tape of it. Universal quickly re-issued it without the original opening theme & that's when the KOLCHAK: began showing up as the opening theme for all the segments. I seem to recall (not sure about this) that the original VHS tape had some Hitchcock film trailers on it (PSYCHO, maybe) and the re-issue didn't. But, yup, the show began as THE NIGHT STALKER (first 4 one-hour shows) then was taken off the air for a month, then returned as KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER (for 16 more one-hour episodes). On an old MIKE DOUGLAS Halloween episode from 1975 (or 1976, not sure) Darren read a Poe story (HEART) then talked to Mike. They talked about how the show had been cancelled. Darren mentioned he had just finished doing a couple of "new" STALKER films. No titles were mentioned, but he must have meant CRACKLE OF DEATH and DEMMON & MUMMY. As a PS, I personally wish both of these were out on DVD, as they contain scenes and narration that can ONLY be found in them, so you don't have every scene, or hear every word Kolchak (as well as Vinchenzo & Updyke) utter, unless you have these. I'm glad I have them on DVD-R (recorded off Sci-fi channel back when they actually ran GOOD stuff!). It's a shame the DVD set doesn't include these 2 movies, or the original opening theme, or those great "next week on the Night Stalker!" teasers. But at least the DVDs are now single-sided, no more 'flipper' junk. Abbythecat Abbythecat (talk) 01:39, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

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Pilots
Shouldn't we include the 2 pilots in the episodes list section? "The Night Stalker" (pilot 1) and "The Night Strangler" (pilot 2).

They are considered as "tv movie" in the article, but aren't they really episodes?

Add a description of Kolchak's standard outfit?
I think a sentence should be added re. Kolchak's standard outfit, especially if a Wiki page/entry is made for Kolchak himself. His outfit is distinctive and immediately recognizable as that of the character. IMO, at minimum it consists of: (1) a hat (I do not know the type/style); (2) a blue & white Seersucker suit; (3) a light blue, long sleeve button down Oxford shirt; (4) a plain black knit tie; (5) black leather belt; (6) black socks and (7) Adidas Stan Smith tennis shoes/sneakers. Since, in the series, Kolchak is "the *night* stalker," he also usually has a flashlight or at minimum, a penlight (penlight used in The Devil's Platform, Bad Medicine, Primal Scream, The Knightly Murders). (The character description currently mentions his "Everyday carry" camera and handheld cassette recorder.)

If anyone knows the type/style of hat he wears, please post it here.Phantom in ca (talk) 18:42, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

Here is a close up picture of the camera, flash and hat used by Carl in the series. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ab/12/bb/ab12bb86451f6236bbc5390550a28b6a.jpg https://durnmoosemovies.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/ns013.jpg

This hat maker claims that Kolchak wore a modified Pork pie hat made of straw. http://baronhats.com/product/the-kolchak-the-night-stalker/

But this image of a straw Fedora looks quite similar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_hat#/media/File:Straw_Harvest_Hat,_International_Hat,_ca._1960s.jpg

Does anyone know if Carl's hat was custom made for the movies/series or it's origin? Phantom in ca (talk) 17:33, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

I found a webpage that says his camera was a Rollei 16S but comparing the image of a 16S there to the image of Carl using his camera in the link above I don't see a "S", so I think Carl used a Rollei 16. (https://www.cameraquest.com/rollei16.htm)

I also noticed that Carl's hat changed from more a fedora style with a band is colored very thin blue, thin red, thick blue, thin red and very thin blue with the brim not turned up at the front (from The Night Stalker: https://noirencyclopedia.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/the-night-stalker-1-darren-mcgavin-as-carl-kolchak.png). Compare that to the more comical, Pork pie style of hat with upturned brim all around and band of thin blue, thick red, thin blue (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51sqhKyLMAL.jpg).

Phantom in ca (talk) 05:16, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

themes/elements incorporated into stories from other shows/movies
Currently, under "The Sentry" in the Episodes section, it says "This episode is noted for being very similar to the Star Trek episode "Devil in the Dark."" I've noticed in other episodes similarities to other TV shows or films. The way the murderous monster is the involuntary creation of a subconscious mind in "The Spanish Moss Murders" is similar to "the monsters of the Id" in Forbidden Planet (1956) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_Planet

The way the monster in "Horror In The Heights" can take an image of a trusted friend from the victim's memory and implant that into their mind in place of the monster's image is similar to what the salt vampire does in the original series Star Trek episode "The Man Trap" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Trap Phantom in ca (talk) 20:39, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

Kolchak's car: a blue 1st Gen convertible Camaro in the 1st movie, none in the 2nd movie, and a yellow 1966 base model convertible Mustang in the series
In the original TV movie, The Night Stalker, about 3.5 minutes in, Carl is driving down a main road in Las Vegas during the day and there's a close up of his car's front. If you compare that to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Camaro#/media/File:'67_Chevrolet_Camaro_(Cruisin'_At_The_Boardwalk_'12).JPG and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Camaro_(first_generation) you will see it is a blue convertible, first generation Camaro. If and when a Wiki page is made dedicated to the Kolchak character, this should be noted and an attempt to identify more about his car (exact year, 6 or 8 cylinders, etc). I don't recall Carl driving his own car -- or any car -- in the 2nd movie, The Night Strangler.

In the TV series Carl drives a yellow, convertible Mustang. I think it looks like a first generation Mustang, specifically a 1964 1/2 to 1966 base car.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Mustang_(first_generation)#/media/File:'66_Ford_Mustang_Convertible_(Centropolis_Laval_'10).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Mustang_(first_generation)

About 10 min in on "Bad Medicine" there's a close up at night of the front end of the Mustang as Carl pulls up and parks. You can see the small "gill slit" like design impressions in the metal between the single headlight and grill. About 14 min in on the same episode there's a close up during the day. In neither of those do you see a large, chrome horizontal bar going across the grill. ETA: I just saw that at about 14 min in to "The Knightly Murders" there is an excellent shot of the front of his Mustang. Therefore, I believe his Mustang was a 1966 base model. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Mustang_(first_generation)#/media/File:1964-1966_styles.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Mustang_(first_generation)#/media/File:1967-1968_styles.jpg Phantom in ca (talk) 18:49, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

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