Explores homosexuals' involvement with the radical left wing of the political spectrum from the 1830s to the present, and looks at socialist, anarchist, and communist ambivalence toward homosexuality. Analyzes the attitudes and policies of leftist thinkers, parties, and regimes in Western Europe, the Soviet Union, and the US, touching on subjects such as homosexual freedom in utopian communes; homophobia in the writings of Marx and Engels; and sex discourse and the Spanish anarchists of the 1930s Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.