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Jun 9, 2019 · The lavender scare. In the 1950s the U.S. government deemed federal workers who were homosexual to be security risks and began purging them from the workforce. A new documentary looks at how...
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Official Website: https://to.pbs.org/2VJVjLH | #LavenderScarePBSJoan Cassidy, a retired captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve, recalls the tactics used by investi...
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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 ...
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.
The Lavender Scare is the first documentary film to tell the story of the U.S. government's decades-long effort to identify and fire gay and lesbian employees.
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Narrated by Glenn Close, 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.
