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Jun 2, 2023 · Unlike the Red Scare, the Lavender Scare featured no public naming of names and no dramatic spectacles in which the accused testified. That relative anonymity saved lives; public exposure almost certainly would have led to more suicides.
Jun 30, 2024 · How the Lavender Scare forced LGBTQ+ workers out of the federal government.
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Apr 27, 2023 · By signing executive order 10450 on April 27, 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower took a wild, unsubstantiated conspiracy theory from a far-right backbench U.S. Senator, Sen. Joseph McCarthy...
Apr 27, 2023 · By signing executive order 10450 on April 27, 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower took a wild, unsubstantiated conspiracy theory from a far-right backbench U.S. Senator, Sen. Joseph McCarthy...
Jan 20, 2020 · I recalled the Lavender Scare, where countless federal government workers were fired from their jobs on grounds that their sexualities were antithetical to what the United States stood for. Regardless of where our revolutionary history begins, what can be agreed upon is that they all lead to today.
Jan 26, 2024 · It catalyzed the creation of an even larger front of repression. The “Lavender Scare” signaled that homosexuality was not merely distasteful, but dangerous—a mortal as well as moral threat.
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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.
