GenZedong

Yes, they are essentially aligned with the views of the bulk of Russian communists, which comes with a fair amount of reactionary baggage.

That article was very sad to read. Unfortunately it is not unusual for communists outside of the West to hold reactionary views on gender and sexuality. I get the impression that is becoming a growing divide between communists in the West and communists in the East (with a minority of dissenters on each side).

This is very problematic because it is causing a schism to the point where MLs on one side will refuse to listen to or engage with MLs on the other side over this issue. One side calls the other liberal and degenerate, the other responds by labeling them patsocs and fascists and all dialogue gets shut down. I see it here too - whenever any content comes up from people who have had the label patsoc attached to them it provokes a kneejerk reaction and immediate rejection almost regardless of the actual content. The other side often acts similarly.

And is hard to see how a solution to this can be found because someone who is themselves LGBT or has LGBT comrades and friends whom they care about will find it virtually impossible to compromise with someone who rejects the very validity of the existence of LGBT people. Yet often the only way for people to unlearn such deeply culturally embedded prejudices is to interact with and to grow through shared struggle to have close personal attachments to the people they hold those prejudices against, creating a contradiction that hopefully will be resolved by discarding those prejudicial beliefs.