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Shibusawa states that the Lavender Scare's logic was circular: homophobia supposedly made gays vulnerable and potential victims of blackmail, but the era's policies of increasing homophobia theoretically made gays even more vulnerable to blackmail.
Dec 22, 2020 · Known as the “ Lavender Scare ,” the policy was based on the unfounded fear that gay men and lesbians “posed a threat to national security because they were vulnerable to blackmail and were...
Jun 5, 2018 · Historian David K. Johnson gave the period a name in his book, The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government. Johnson documents the use of the...
Jun 30, 2024 · The Red Scare had spawned the Lavender Scare the name taken from Senator Everett Dirksen his reference to gay men as lavender labs. A 1950 Congressional investigation concluded that LGBTQ...
Jun 2, 2023 · In 1975 the Civil Service Commission announced new rules stipulating that gay people could no longer be barred or fired from federal employment because of their sexuality. The Lavender Scare was finally officially over (at least for civilian workers).
Jun 9, 2019 · He defined it as "a fear that permeated Cold War political culture, this fear that gay people were a threat to national security, that they had infiltrated the federal government, and that they...
Mar 29, 2017 · Learn about the attempts to purge the US military and federal government of gay and lesbian employees during the Cold War and decades later.
