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In Europe and America, a broader movement of " free love " was also emerging from the 1860s among first-wave feminists and radicals of the libertarian left.

They critiqued Victorian sexual morality and the traditional institutions of family and marriage that were seen to enslave women.

Some advocates of free love in the early 20th century, including Russian anarchist and feminist Emma Goldman, also spoke in defence of same-sex love and challenged repressive legislation.