^Herdt, Gilbert, ed. (2009). "Gay Marriage: The Panic and the Right". Moral Panics, Sex Panics: Fear and the Fight Over Sexual Rights. New York University Press. pp. 163–164. ISBN978-0-8147-3723-1. During the heyday of rising anti-homosexual rhetoric, communism was frequently mentioned in the same narratives as sexual perversion. [...] The accusation of homosexuality was a de facto accusation of Communism pure and simple [...] It is remarkable that earlier capitalist and fascist rhetoric shared the common enemy of Communist/homosexual/Jew.
^Klosowska, Anna (2011). "Trouble in the Global Village: A Snapshot of LGBT Community in Eastern Europe". In Román-Odio, C.; Sierra, M. (eds.). Transnational Borderlands in Women's Global Networks: The Making of Cultural Resistance. Comparative Feminist Studies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 188. doi:10.1057/9780230119475_9. ISBN978-0-230-11947-5. In the nation-states of Eastern Europe twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the discursive structures of paranoia and conspiracy theory applied to the LGBT community seem directly transferred from the anti-Semitic tradition of Jewish conspiracy strongly present in these countries.