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GAY WEBB

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Webb were acknowledged that the feral ernment at that time “shamefully promoted” discrimatn agast gay employe. 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. In two s, between 5, 000 and 10, 000 gay employe were phed out of ernment, reers and liv wrecked. Webb led the anti-gay purge at the State Department and that he had ttified of his ntempt for gay people.

Webb as a “homophobe.

Webb but a different State Department official who oversaw the purge and spoke disparaggly of gay the qutn of moral culpabily lgered.

Historians who specialize this era gay history said such expectatns ignore the historil ntext.