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Jun 2, 2023 · Dubbed the Lavender Scare, this wave of repression was also bound up with anti-Communism and fueled by the power of congressional investigation. The purge followed an era in which gay people were increasingly finding each other and forming communities in urban America.
Drawing on a variety of primary sources - many only declassified and opened to the public in 2000 - plus oral histories of people who lived and worked in Washington, DC at the time, and newspaper accounts, magazines, novels, and films, David K. Johnson reconstructs an era of persecution and purges of lesbian, gay, bisexual,
In his book, The Lavender Scare, author David K. Johnson explains how this concern grew in the 1930s and 1940s after sweeping changes caused by the New Deal and World War II seemed to throw American society on its head.
Drawing on a variety of primary sources – many only declassified and opened to the public in 2000 – plus oral histories of people who lived and worked in Washington, DC at the time, and newspaper accounts, magazines, novels, and films, David K. Johnson reconstructs an era of persecution and purges of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and ...
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Jul 9, 2024 · The "Lavender Scare" was a moral panic during the mid-20th century about homosexual people in the United States government and their mass dismissal from government service. It contributed to and paralleled the anti-communist campaign known as McCarthyism and the Second Red Scare.
In The Lavender Scare, David K. Johnson tells the frightening story of how, during the Cold War, homosexuals were considered as dangerous a threat to national security as Communists. Charges that the Roosevelt and Truman administrations were havens for homosexuals proved a potent political weapon, sparking a “Lavender Scare” more vehement ...
Aug 10, 2023 · In a moment when LGBTQ+ rights are again in the public crosshairs, we tell the story of the Lavender Scare: its victims, its proponents, and a man who fought for decades to end it.
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