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A new documentary... In the 1950s the U.S. government deemed federal workers who were homosexual to be security risks and began purging them from the workforce.
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- CBS Sunday Morning
Mar 29, 2019 · Roosevelt House hosts a special presentation of The Lavender Scare, a documentary film about a little-known chapter of American history -- when, in the panic of the 1950s Cold War,...
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- Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video on the Lavender Scare in the United States in the Cold War period, as we will describe how the LGBTQ...
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- The Cold War
The Lavender Scare (Preview) Learn the untold story of how tens of thousands of homosexual federal workers were either fired or denied employment in the 1950s, stirring outrage in the gay community and starting an LGBTQ rights movement with an unlikely hero at the forefront.
The Lavender Scare is the first documentary film to tell the little-known story of an unrelenting campaign by the federal government to identify and fire all employees suspected of being homosexual. In 1953, President Eisenhower declared gay men and lesbians to be a threat to the security of the country and therefore unfit for government service.
May 14, 2019 · ARLINGTON, VA – Narrated by Glenn Close and featuring the voices of Cynthia Nixon, Zachary Quinto, T. R. Knight and David Hyde Pierce, THE LAVENDER SCARE tells the little-known story of an...
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Jun 7, 2019 · Josh Howard’s incisive documentary The Lavender Scare offers a stirring depiction of gay travails during that era that’s as shocking as it is illuminating.
