Lavender scare
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The lavender scare refers to a witch hunt and the mass firings of gay people in the 1950s from the United States government. It paralleled the anti-communist campaign known as McCarthyism and the Second Red Scare. Gay men and lesbians were said to be security risks and communist sympathizers, which led to the call to remove them from state employment.
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See also
- Advise and Consent
- Joseph Alsop
- Blue discharge
- Boise homosexuality scandal
- Civil Service Reform Act of 1978
- Executive Order 10450
- Executive Order 11478
- Executive Order 13087
- Florida Legislative Investigation Committee
- Fruit machine (homosexuality test)
- Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies
- Homosexuality and Citizenship in Florida
- Frank Kameny
- Martin and Mitchell Defection
- R. W. Scott McLeod
- Carmel Offie
- Samuel Reber
- Seduction of the Innocent
- Sexual orientation and the United States military
- Charles W. Thayer
- Arthur H. Vandenberg, Jr.
- Walter Jenkins
- Wright Commission on Government Security
- Association of Communism with homosexuality by anti-Communists
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