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The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government
by David K. Johnson
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Author: David K. Johnson
Number of Pages: 316
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The Lavender Scare The Cold War Persecution of Gays and In this book Johnson concludes that the lavender scare as it became routinized in the bureaucracy of the national security state outlasted its more wellknown cousin the red scare He demonstrates how in the language of the 1950s “security risk” became a virtual code word for homosexual The Lavender Scare The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Historian David K Johnson will relate the frightening untold story of the Lavender Scare and how during the Cold War homosexuals were considered as dangerous a threat to national security as Communists The Lavender Scare The Cold War Persecution of Gays and The Lavender Scare Historian David K Johnson here relates the frightening untold story of how during the Cold War homosexuals were considered as dangerous a threat to national security as Communists Charges that the Roosevelt and Truman administrations were havens for homosexuals proved a potent political weapon The Lavender Scare The Cold War Persecution of Gays and David Johnson’s The Lavender Scare The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government repositions gay and lesbian persecution during the Cold Ware at the center of Cold War hysteria rather than at the margins Johnson brings to the forefront the lavender scare that accompanied the red scare during the Cold War The Lavender Scare The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government The Lavender Scare The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government The Lavender Scare The Cold War Persecution of Gays and The Lavender Scare The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government by David K Johnson 2006 The Lavender Scare grew from the McCarthy persecutions of the 1950s but Johnson argues that its policies lasted far longer and became more institutionalized than the anticommunist hysteria
