The PCP is the most advanced political party of our time

Imagine saying that after Gonzalo's death 😬

Personally I've never heard claims that the PCP-SL was homophobic so I won't comment on this and move straight to the bulk of the essay which is explaining the massacre at Lucanamarca which I suspect is what the author was really driving at.

Lucanamarca was just one dot in the PCP's many doings. It's also the only one that supporters of the SL have to contend with because it's one Gonzalo admitted to.

I think the position towards the PCP starts at figuring out who they were. When you see that Guzman was a college prof and that right around the time he started the SL, the CIA was distributing Quotations from Chairman Mao in South American unis to exacerbate the Sino-Soviet split... is when you start to put 2 and 2 together.

As for whether the claims made against the PCP-SL are bourgeois propaganda, I'm not convinced on the sole basis that we are able to trudge through the slandering done on Stalin and Castro for example, despite much more bourgeois historiography trying to slander Stalin. But claims against the SL come up again and again with only a fringe group trying to defend their legacy.

Frankly it's a dead party that has left no impact outside of Peru (and in online communist discourse in this area specifically), I don't care to look much more into what they might have done or not. I don't follow their line because I hold Marxism-Leninism as the most advanced ideology of the proletariat, not because they committed crimes.