ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on some of the gay liberation movement's radical anti-family critiques, first developed in the late 1960s. The Bolsheviks had also broken new ground towards ending homosexual oppression after the 1917 Russian revolution. Similarly, Carlin linked homosexual oppression to the ascendant nuclear family. While different societies have approached same-sex relationships in various and complex ways, the family underwent remoulding during the Industrial Revolution. Further evidence for the link between homosexual oppression and the family has come hot and strong out of the mouths of conservatives. Additional connections between homosexual oppression and the family survive decades after radicals identified them so explicitly in the 1960s and 1970s. Yet, the family also popped up in opposition to the introduction of same-sex marriage in France in May 2013, as evidenced by objections from right-wingers about the undermining of the 'family unit' by same-sex couples 'naturally' incapable of giving birth.
