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gay rights during the cold war

This article is the send one of the seri ntag a tailed sight to the events of the Cold War and the evolutn of gay rights Ameri..

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STGGLE FOR GAY RIGHTS AMERI AND THE COLD WAR

* gay rights during the cold war *

Durg the Cold War, homosexualy was associated wh munism and portrayed as a natnal secury threat. The State Department’s 1950 purge of supposed homosexuals unr Print Harry Tman unleashed “the lavenr sre, ” which st thoands their jobs.

GAY RIGHTS

In the face of the charg of beg “un-Amerin, ” historian Simon Hall argu, early gay-rights groups profsed patrtism and appealed to “the natn’s foundg ials of liberty and equaly. In the sprg and summer of 1965, for example, there were gay-rights protts at the Whe Hoe, Pentagon, Civil Service Commissn, and Philalphia’s Inpennce Hall.

Activists held up signs readg “First Class Cizenship for Homosexuals;” “Ameri, the Land of the Free. For Homosexuals Too?

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