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David K. Johnson has 49 books on Goodreads with 7187 ratings. David K. Johnson’s most popular book is The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gay...
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David K. Johnson is an award-winning historian and author....
- David K. Johnson (Author of The Lavender Scare) - Goodreads
Mar 22, 2023 · 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.
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Mar 1, 2021 · Drawing on newly declassified documents and interviews with former government officials, historian David Johnson chronicles how the myth that homosexuals threatened national security determined government policy for decades, ruined thousands of lives, and pushed many to suicide.
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David K. Johnson is an award-winning historian and author. His first book, "The Lavender Scare" was made into a documentary film that garnered best documentary awards at over a dozen film festival. His book, "Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement", chronicles the rise of a gay commercial network in the 1950s and 1960s.
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His first book, The Lavender Scare, was made into a documentary film that garnered best documentary awards at over a dozen film festivals and broadcast nationwide on PBS June 18, 2019. His second book, Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement chronicles the rise of a gay commercial network in the years leading up to the ...
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.
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 ...
