Lavender Scare

Lavender Scare ... For the lavender scare in the state of Florida, see Florida Legislative Investigation Committee. The Lavender Scare was a moral panic about ...

“These People Are Frightened to Death” | National Archives

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 ...

History You Didn't Learn About the Anti-Gay Lavender Scare | TIME

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 ...

The Lavender Scare - National Archives Foundation

This rhetoric kicked off a much longer, destructive, and effective hunt for LGBTQ+ federal employees that's now known as the Lavender Scare.

A Proclamation on the 70th Anniversary of the Lavender Scare

This action codified a shameful chapter in our Nation's history known as the “Lavender Scare.” It was a decades-long period when 5,000 to 10,000 ...

The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays ... - OutHistory

This fear that gay men and lesbians could be blackmailed into revealing state secrets resulted in a systematic campaign to identify and remove all government ...

The Lavender Scare

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 ...

Cold War, Lavender Scare, and LGBTQ+ Activism

In 1953, President Eisenhower signed Executive Order 104050 which effectively banned LGBTQ+ people from federal employment. Because of this, ...

The shameful history of the Lavender Scare echoes today

Journalists given a peek at the 25,000 letters concluded that the vast majority of writers were alarmed more by the presence of gay men and ...

The lavender scare: How the federal government purged gay ...

For decades a policy that deemed homosexuals a national security threat would blackmail government workers and destroy careers, ...

Interview with David K. Johnson, author of The Lavender Scare

The politicians behind the Lavender Scare asserted that homosexuals were susceptible to blackmail by enemy agents and so could be coerced into revealing ...

The Lavender Scare – The origin of the policy to exclude ...

While it is true that there were communist spies in the. Federal Government, the simultaneously running, but distinct, efforts by. McCarthy and ...

LGBT History: The Lavender Scare - NGLCC

This period of time is often known as the Lavender Scare—the interrogation and firing of LGBT-identifying civil servants. Before the Lavender ...

The Lavender Scare: How Fear and Prejudice Impacted a Nation in ...

While the Lavender Scare is less commonly known than the Red Scare in public knowledge of the Cold War, it is nonetheless important. In fact, its relative ...

Executive Order 10450: Eisenhower and the Lavender Scare

The order defined, “Any criminal, infamous, dishonest, immoral, or notoriously disgraceful conduct, habitual use of intoxicants to excess, drug addiction, ...

The “Lavender Scare”: Homosexuals at the State Department

Investigating homosexuality became a core function of the Department's Office of Security, which ferreted out more people for homosexuality than for being a ...

The Lavender Scare : Throughline - NPR

One day in late April 1958, a young economist named Madeleine Tress was approached by two men in suits at her office at the U.S. Department ...

How the Lavender Scare forced LGBTQ+ workers out of the federal ...

McCarthy explicitly linked communism with LGBTQ people, and some even said they were the bigger threat. The Red Scare had spawned the Lavender ...

LGBTQ+ Government Workers - LGBTQIA+ Studies: A Resource Guide

... lavender scare. Primary Sources; Newspapers Articles: Lavender Scare; Research Strategies. Below you will find resources which will assist you ...

The Lavender Scare - The University of Chicago Press

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 ...