Did the former head of NASA discrimate agast gay people? One physicist tried to rebut the accatn, only to fd himself the target of attacks.
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JAM WEBB HATED GAY PEOPLE. WHY ARE WE NAMG A TELPE AFTER HIM?
* james webb gay rights *
The bate over the telpe cuts to the re of who is worthy to memorialize and how past human acplishment should be balanced wh morn standards of social the former head of NASA discrimate agast gay people?
This man, they sisted, was a homophobe who oversaw a purge of gay Oleyi, who is now the print of the Natnal Society of Black Physicists, was sympathetic to the crics. Webb should be held rponsible for any anti-gay activy at NASA and at the State Department, where he had prevly been a high-rankg official. Webb “knew exactly what was happeng wh secury at his own agency durg the height of the Cold War, ” addg, “We are eply ncerned by the implitn that managers are not rponsible for homophobia.
In attackg the State Department, they tried to ferret out employe they claimed were Communists and what they lled “perverts” — gay Amerins, what beme known as the lavenr sre. Johnson, a history profsor at the Universy of South Florida and thor of “The Lavenr Sre: The Cold War Persecutn of Gays and Lbians the Feral Government.