Comrade originally referred to like-minded people.

In ancient my country, comrade had the same meaning as sir, elder, jun, etc., and they were all terms of address between friends. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Zuo Qiuming explained the term comrade in "Guoyu·Jinyu IV": "Those who share the same virtues are of the same mind, and those who are of the same mind are comrades." "Book of the Later Han Dynasty·Liu Tao Biography" says: "Anyone who makes friends must be "Also gay." In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the word "comrade" came from the Soviet Union, which meant people with gay aspirations. In China, gay is also widely used as a title for greeting strangers, similar to "master". In addition, Chinese gays began to call each other "comrade" in the 1990s