1950s wch hunt:: Even McCarthy was gay baed

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• FET RICHARD NIXON'S GAY LOVER: THIS IS J EDGAR HOOVER'S SECRET LOVE CHILD
• J. EDGAR HOOVER: GAY OR JT A MAN WHO HAS SEX WH MEN?
• LAVENR SRE: THE GOVERNMENT’S GAY WCH HUNT
• GAY HISTORY – SEPTEMBER 7, 1952: SEN. JOSEPH MCCARTHY BRAGS ABOUT THE DTCTN OF 145 GAY “DEVIANT” LIV
• 1950S WCH HUNT:: EVEN MCCARTHY WAS GAY BAED
• JOSEPH {LOR:#595959;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:600;MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:0.875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.2;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:1.25REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.2;}} A{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:HER;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;} A:HOVER{LOR:#A00000;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}SENATOR JOSEPH MCCARTHY CHARGED THAT MUNISTS HAD FILTRATED THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT. 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IN 1946 HE WAS ELECTED TO THE U.S. SENATE, AND 1950 HE PUBLICLY CHARGED THAT 205 MUNISTS HAD FILTRATED THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT. REELECTED 1952, HE BEME CHAIR OF THE SENATE'S SUBMTEE ON VTIGATNS, AND FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS HE VTIGATED VAR ERNMENT PARTMENTS AND QUTNED NUMERABLE WNS, RULTG WHAT WOULD BE KNOWN AS THE RED SRE. A RRPONDG LAVENR SRE WAS ALSO DIRECTED AT LGBT FERAL EMPLOYE, G SR OF CIZENS TO LOSE THEIR JOBS. AFTER A TELEVISED HEARG WHICH HE WAS DISCREDED AND NMNED BY CONGRS, MCCARTHY FELL OUT OF THE SPOTLIGHT. HE DIED ON MAY 2, 1957.EARLY YEARS AND CAREERJOSEPH MCCARTHY WAS BORN ON NOVEMBER 14, 1908, NEAR APPLETON, WISNS. EXCELLG AMILLY, MCCARTHY ATTEND MARQUETTE UNIVERSY MILWKEE, WHERE HE WAS ELECTED PRINT OF HIS LAW SCHOOL CLASS. A FEW YEARS AFTER EARNG HIS LAW GREE 1935, MCCARTHY RAN FOR THE JUDGHIP WISNS’S TENTH JUDICIAL CIRCU, A RACE HE WORKED AT RELENTLSLY AND WON, BEG WISNS’S YOUNGT CIRCU JUDGE EVER ELECTED AT THE AGE OF 30.MCCARTHY TOOK A LEAVE OF ABSENCE JULY 1942 AND ENTERED WWII AS A FIRST LITENANT THE MAR. (HE WOULD LATER LIE ABOUT BEG WOUND BAT.) MCCARTHY WAS STILL ON ACTIVE DUTY WHEN HE EMBARKED UPON HIS NEXT POLIL MPAIGN: FOR THE REPUBLIN NOMATN TO THE U.S. SENATE. HE WAS FEATED BUT SOON BEGAN PLANNG FOR THE 1946 SENATE RACE.U.S. SENATEIN 1946, MCCARTHY WON HIS RACE AN UPSET AGAST SENATOR ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE JR. AND ENTERED THE U.S. CONGRS AS THE YOUNGT MEMBER OF THE SENATE. MCCARTHY LEANED TOWARD NSERVATISM AND GENERALLY FLEW UNR THE RADAR, WORKG ON SUCH ISSU AS HOG LEGISLATN AND SUGAR RATNG. ALL THAT WOULD CHANGE 1950, WHEN BEME SPECTED THAT MUNISTS HAD FILTRATED THE U.S. ERNMENT THE WAKE OF HIGH-PROFILE PNAGE TRIALS. BURNED BY AN UNEVENTFUL POLIL REER AND HAVG AN EYE TOWARDS REELECTN, MCCARTHY CLAIMED THAT 205 MUNISTS HAD FILTRATED THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT AND SOON AFTER CLAIMED TO HAVE THE NAM OF 57 STATE DEPARTMENT MUNISTS, SPE HAVG LTLE KNOWLEDGE OF TERNATNAL PNAGE. AS HE RELEASED HIS CHARG, HE LLED FOR A WI-REACHG VTIGATN THAT WOULD LEAD TO WHAT WAS TERMED THE RED SRE.RED SREMCCARTHY WAS REELECTED 1952 AND BEME CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE’S COMMTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATNS, WHERE HE OCCUPIED THE SPOTLIGHT FOR TWO YEARS WH HIS ANTI-MUNIST VTIGATNS AND QUTNG OF SPECTED OFFICIALS. MCCARTHY’S CHARG LED TO TTIMONY BEFORE THE SENATE COMMTEE ON FOREIGN RELATNS, BUT HE WAS UNABLE TO SUBSTANTIATE ANY OF HIS CLAIMS AGAST A SGLE MEMBER OF ANY ERNMENT PARTMENT. DPE THIS SETBACK, MCCARTHY’S POPULARY NEVERTHELS NTUED TO RISE, AS HIS CLAIMS HAD STCK A NERVE WH AN AMERIN PUBLIC TIRED OF THE KOREAN WAR AND NCERNED WH MUNIST ACTIVY CHA AND EASTERN EUROPE. UNDNTED BY HIS TTIMONIAL SHORTGS, MCCARTHY RATCHETED UP THE RHETORIC, GOG ON A LORFUL ANTIMUNIST “CSA” THROUGH WHICH HE ST HIMSELF AS AN UNRELENTG PATRT AND PROTECTOR OF THE AMERIN IAL. ON THE OTHER SI OF THE ARGUMENT, HIS TRACTORS CLAIMED MCCARTHY WAS ON A WCH HUNT AND ED HIS POWER TO TRAMPLE CIVIL LIBERTI AND GREATLY DAMAGE THE REERS OF LEFTISTS, TELLECTUALS AND ARTISTS. HIS AGGRSIVE TACTICS, THE END LEADG TO THE PERSECUTN AND LOSS OF LIVELIHOOD OF UNTLS NOCENT PEOPLE, ME TO BE KNOWN AS MCCARTHYISM. LAVENR SREAROUND THE SAME TIME AS MCCARTHY IMPLEMENTED HIS CHARG AROUND MUNIST FILTRATN, THE SENATOR WOULD ALSO TURN HIS SIGHTS TO THE GAY AND LBIAN MUNI, ALLEGG THAT LGBT ERNMENTAL EMPLOYE ULD BE BLACKMAILED BY ENEMY AGENTS OVER THEIR SEXUALY AND THEREBY BETRAY NATNAL SECRETS. IN 1950, A SPECIAL REPORT DRAWN UP BY THE SENATOR'S REPUBLIN ALLI, THE SENATE MORY AT THE TIME, CED GAY AND LBIAN WORKERS AS A POTENTIAL MORAL THREAT TO THE WORKGS OF THE ERNMENT. IN 1953, {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}PRINT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER WOULD SIGN EXECUTIVE ORR 10450, WHICH SANCTNED THE ADMISTRATIVE POLICY OF TRACKG DOWN GAY-LBIAN ERNMENTAL EMPLOYE AND HAVG THEM FIRED DUE TO THE LABELG OF "SEXUAL PERVERSN" AS AN UNSIRABLE TRA FOR EMPLOYMENT. SR OF EMPLOYE WERE TH FIRED OR RIGNED OUT OF FEAR OF PERSECUTN, WH VAR SURVEILLANCE MEASUR STUTED TO TRY AND TRACK DOWN CIZENS' TIMATE HABS. FRANK KAMENY, PHD, A GAY MAPPG OFFICIAL AND ASTRONOMER WHO WAS FIRED OM HIS JOB, WOULD CHALLENGE THE ORR, ISSUE A GROUNDBREAKG 1961 LEGAL BRIEF TO THE SUPREME COURT (WHICH WOULD NY HIS PETN) AND YEARS LATER ANIZE A PROTT ONT OF THE WHE HOE. DES PASSED BEFORE THE ERNMENTAL AGENCY BAN ON LGBT EMPLOYE WAS OFFICIALLY LIFTED BY PRINT BILL CLTON. TELEVISED HEARGMCCARTHY'S CHARG OF MUNISM AND ANTI-AMERIN ACTIVY AFFECTED MORE AND MORE POWERFUL PEOPLE, CLUDG PRINT EISENHOWER, UNTIL 1954 WHEN A NATNALLY TELEVISED, 36-DAY HEARG ILLTRATED CLEARLY TO THE NATN THAT HE WAS OVERSTEPPG HIS THORY AND ANY IAS OF MON SENSE. (THE HEARGS ALSO FAMOLY PROMPTED SPECIAL UNSEL FOR THE ARMY JOSEPH NYE WELCH TO ASK MCCARTHY, “HAVE YOU NO SENSE OF CENCY SIR, AT LONG LAST? HAVE YOU LEFT NO SENSE OF CENCY?”) BEFORE THE HEARGS, PUBLIC OPN HAD ALSO TURNED AGAST MCCARTHY DUE TO A DISCREDG FEATURE ON EDWARD R. MURROW'S PROGRAM SEE IT NOW. LATER YEARS AND DEATHMCCARTHY WAS EVENTUALLY STRIPPED OF HIS CHAIRMANSHIP AND NMNED ON THE SENATE FLOOR (DEC. 2, 1954) FOR NDUCT “NTRARY TO SENATE TRADNS.” THAT TURNED OUT TO BE THE FAL NAIL THE FF OF THE MCCARTHYISM ERA, AND JOSEPH MCCARTHY HIMSELF FELL OM THE PUBLIC EYE THOUGH HE NTUED TO SERVE CONGRS. A EPLY TROUBLG MOVEMENT HELMED BY A MAGOGUE SPIRED THE 1953 ARTHUR MILLER PLAY THE CCIBLE, WHICH LOOKED AT THE SALEM WCH HUNT TRIALS OF THE 17TH CENTURY TO DRAW PARALLELS TO NTEMPORARY MCCARTHYISM.MCCARTHY WAS HISTORILLY A HEAVY DRKER AND BEME MIRED ALHOLISM AFTER HIS FALL OM PUBLIC POWER. MCCARTHY WOULD EVENTUALLY SUFFER OM LIVER FAILURE AND ON MAY 2, 1957, DIED OF ACUTE HEPATIS AT THE BETHDA NAVAL HOSPAL OUTSI WASHGTON, WH HIS WIFE, THE FORMER JEAN KERR, AT HIS {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
• THE GAY MCCARTHY

FET RICHARD NIXON'S GAY LOVER: THIS IS J EDGAR HOOVER'S SECRET LOVE CHILD

At the same hearg, Achon’s puty unrsecretary for admistratn acknowledged that 91 known “people of moral weakns, ” most of whom were gay, had been unvered and fired om the State Department sce 1947. Senators Lister Hill and Kenh Wherry, censed at the revelatns, spearhead a Senate vtigatn (PDF) to the supposed epimic of “homosexuals and other moral perverts” employed by the ernment. Havg also termed that many feral agenci were lax enforcg existg protol regardg homosexual activy, the mtee remend that all areas of ernment take this matter serly.

Tman-ordaed loyalty review boards enuraged their rmants to look for stereotypil gay or lbian behavr and stcted their vtigators to acquire medil, psychiatric, and police reports as evince of homosexualy. Feral employment polici served as a mol for the private sector, so extend unemployment beme a realy for many gay and lbian people.

Cohn died om AIDS-related plitns 1986, and afterwards was portrayed the 1990s Broadway play Angels Ameri: A Gay Fantasia on Natnal Them. “In lavenr Washgton, Cohn was known as both a closeted homosexual and homophobic, among those leadg the charge agast supposedly gay wns who he and others believed should lose their ernment jobs bee they were ‘secury risks, ’” wr journalist Marie Brenner Vany Fair.

J. EDGAR HOOVER: GAY OR JT A MAN WHO HAS SEX WH MEN?

Why trars on the ro bt markets are actg like a load of adolcent girls 31/07/12 'Whatever tak': Yet aga, the markets fall for the empty words of Euro lears 30/07/12 VIEW FULL ARCHIVE But let’s get back to Print Nixon and the man wh whom he ‘may have had’ a homosexual relatnship. So nobody knows if the three were gay, any more than we n know if the first three married Wtmster policians you n name are ‘secretly gay. Anyway, if they were that was their own private bs, not ours: or are the left-wgers makg the charg agast Nixon tryg to say that homosexual activy is as sndalo as rpet-bombg Cambodia?

A basels accatn that he was a ‘secret’ homosexual isn’t one of ’s book jt as a new film about J Edgar Hoover opens the cemas.

I hardly have to tell you that the pot of the film is to prent the crime-btg, Commie-spy huntg, FBI chief Hoover, as a reprsed – or perhaps active – homosexual.

LAVENR SRE: THE GOVERNMENT’S GAY WCH HUNT

The Greek wrer Taki vers this his lumn the January edn of Chronicl, the Amerin paleo-nservative magaze: ‘Twenty years or so after he died, the mour was started about [Hoover’s] cross-drsg gay i by a woman’ – Taki means San Rosentiel, and no you’ve never heard of her – ‘who was known even among her radil circle for her fabritns and Baron Munchsen-like tal. Hoover was openly homophobic, didn’t tst Jews, and was acced of beg a racist durg the civil-rights troubl of the late ‘50s and early ‘60s. ’And boy did Rosenthiel know how to egg-up a smear: she claimed she had seen a man she was sure was Hoover several tim at homosexual i at the Plaza Hotel New York, drsed as woman, wearg a black wig and havg sex wh teenaged boys who were readg the claims are ludicro.

All I know is that at the time of her early ath she still had the picture of J Edgar hidn away, bee I found , nsirg what is passg as ‘evince’ for the relatnships of right-wgers such as Hoover, here is what we have about Hoover and my mother – and is a lot more solid evince than anyone has that Hoover and Tolson were homosexual, Hoover liked betiful dark haired young women such as Dorothy Lamour.

GAY HISTORY – SEPTEMBER 7, 1952: SEN. JOSEPH MCCARTHY BRAGS ABOUT THE DTCTN OF 145 GAY “DEVIANT” LIV

Filmgoers never see the s-long romance between the former FBI director, and his number two, Cly Tolson, nsummated, but there's plenty of lovg glanc, hand-holdg and one scene wh an aggrsive, long, ep was the most powerful man Ameri, who died 1972 -- three years after the Stonewall rts marked the morn gay civil rights movement -- homosexual? Jack Drcher, a New York Cy psychiatrist who is an expert genr and wh strong attractns to other men n have different gre of acceptance om beg fully closeted to beg openly gay. "Even the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn (CDC) tracks a group that is not labeled "gay" but "men who have sex wh men.

1950S WCH HUNT:: EVEN MCCARTHY WAS GAY BAED

Joseph McCarthy his anti-munist mpaign of the 1950s and who succsfully nvicted Juli and Ethel Rosenberg of pnage, nied he was gay, spe an attractn to, who died of AIDS 1986, was a ntemporary of Hoover and acrdg to one bgraphy, the two attend sex parti together New York the was characterized a scene om Tony Kchner's play, "Angels Ameri, " speakg to his doctor: "..

"In a 2004 bgraphy by Richard Hack, "Puppetmaster, " which was culled om the not of Tman Capote, who had begun terviews on Hoover and Tolson's relatnship, the thor says Hoover was not gay, but suggts the man was virly turned on by the smut he llected on 200-page secret document was on the extracurricular activi of Capote himself, who was openly Anthony Summers, who exposed the secret sex life of Hoover his 1993 book, "Official and Confintial: The Secret Life of J. And Bra are issug a remake of the medil expert told Summers that Hoover was "strongly predomant homosexual orientatn" and another tegorized him as a "bisexual wh failed heterosexualy. "Hoover promoted men cled to homosexual discretns, cludg Tolson, who had barely 18 months experience wh the FBI when he beme Hoover's pair ed to make "scy jok" about some of the other agents, like Melv Purvis, who was a hero for arrtg John Dillger, acrdg to 's son shared his father's 500-letter rrponnce wh Hoover, who teased the good-lookg, blond-haired agent as "the Clark Gable of the FBI, " even though he was were timate and one was highly charged wh nuendo, as Hoover referred to himself as the "Chairman of the Moral Uplift Squad.

JOSEPH {LOR:#595959;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:600;MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:0.875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.2;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:1.25REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.2;}} A{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:HER;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;} A:HOVER{LOR:#A00000;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}SENATOR JOSEPH MCCARTHY CHARGED THAT MUNISTS HAD FILTRATED THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT. 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IN 1946 HE WAS ELECTED TO THE U.S. SENATE, AND 1950 HE PUBLICLY CHARGED THAT 205 MUNISTS HAD FILTRATED THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT. REELECTED 1952, HE BEME CHAIR OF THE SENATE'S SUBMTEE ON VTIGATNS, AND FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS HE VTIGATED VAR ERNMENT PARTMENTS AND QUTNED NUMERABLE WNS, RULTG WHAT WOULD BE KNOWN AS THE RED SRE. A RRPONDG LAVENR SRE WAS ALSO DIRECTED AT LGBT FERAL EMPLOYE, G SR OF CIZENS TO LOSE THEIR JOBS. AFTER A TELEVISED HEARG WHICH HE WAS DISCREDED AND NMNED BY CONGRS, MCCARTHY FELL OUT OF THE SPOTLIGHT. HE DIED ON MAY 2, 1957.EARLY YEARS AND CAREERJOSEPH MCCARTHY WAS BORN ON NOVEMBER 14, 1908, NEAR APPLETON, WISNS. EXCELLG AMILLY, MCCARTHY ATTEND MARQUETTE UNIVERSY MILWKEE, WHERE HE WAS ELECTED PRINT OF HIS LAW SCHOOL CLASS. A FEW YEARS AFTER EARNG HIS LAW GREE 1935, MCCARTHY RAN FOR THE JUDGHIP WISNS’S TENTH JUDICIAL CIRCU, A RACE HE WORKED AT RELENTLSLY AND WON, BEG WISNS’S YOUNGT CIRCU JUDGE EVER ELECTED AT THE AGE OF 30.MCCARTHY TOOK A LEAVE OF ABSENCE JULY 1942 AND ENTERED WWII AS A FIRST LITENANT THE MAR. (HE WOULD LATER LIE ABOUT BEG WOUND BAT.) MCCARTHY WAS STILL ON ACTIVE DUTY WHEN HE EMBARKED UPON HIS NEXT POLIL MPAIGN: FOR THE REPUBLIN NOMATN TO THE U.S. SENATE. HE WAS FEATED BUT SOON BEGAN PLANNG FOR THE 1946 SENATE RACE.U.S. SENATEIN 1946, MCCARTHY WON HIS RACE AN UPSET AGAST SENATOR ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE JR. AND ENTERED THE U.S. CONGRS AS THE YOUNGT MEMBER OF THE SENATE. MCCARTHY LEANED TOWARD NSERVATISM AND GENERALLY FLEW UNR THE RADAR, WORKG ON SUCH ISSU AS HOG LEGISLATN AND SUGAR RATNG. ALL THAT WOULD CHANGE 1950, WHEN BEME SPECTED THAT MUNISTS HAD FILTRATED THE U.S. ERNMENT THE WAKE OF HIGH-PROFILE PNAGE TRIALS. BURNED BY AN UNEVENTFUL POLIL REER AND HAVG AN EYE TOWARDS REELECTN, MCCARTHY CLAIMED THAT 205 MUNISTS HAD FILTRATED THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT AND SOON AFTER CLAIMED TO HAVE THE NAM OF 57 STATE DEPARTMENT MUNISTS, SPE HAVG LTLE KNOWLEDGE OF TERNATNAL PNAGE. AS HE RELEASED HIS CHARG, HE LLED FOR A WI-REACHG VTIGATN THAT WOULD LEAD TO WHAT WAS TERMED THE RED SRE.RED SREMCCARTHY WAS REELECTED 1952 AND BEME CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE’S COMMTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATNS, WHERE HE OCCUPIED THE SPOTLIGHT FOR TWO YEARS WH HIS ANTI-MUNIST VTIGATNS AND QUTNG OF SPECTED OFFICIALS. MCCARTHY’S CHARG LED TO TTIMONY BEFORE THE SENATE COMMTEE ON FOREIGN RELATNS, BUT HE WAS UNABLE TO SUBSTANTIATE ANY OF HIS CLAIMS AGAST A SGLE MEMBER OF ANY ERNMENT PARTMENT. DPE THIS SETBACK, MCCARTHY’S POPULARY NEVERTHELS NTUED TO RISE, AS HIS CLAIMS HAD STCK A NERVE WH AN AMERIN PUBLIC TIRED OF THE KOREAN WAR AND NCERNED WH MUNIST ACTIVY CHA AND EASTERN EUROPE. UNDNTED BY HIS TTIMONIAL SHORTGS, MCCARTHY RATCHETED UP THE RHETORIC, GOG ON A LORFUL ANTIMUNIST “CSA” THROUGH WHICH HE ST HIMSELF AS AN UNRELENTG PATRT AND PROTECTOR OF THE AMERIN IAL. ON THE OTHER SI OF THE ARGUMENT, HIS TRACTORS CLAIMED MCCARTHY WAS ON A WCH HUNT AND ED HIS POWER TO TRAMPLE CIVIL LIBERTI AND GREATLY DAMAGE THE REERS OF LEFTISTS, TELLECTUALS AND ARTISTS. HIS AGGRSIVE TACTICS, THE END LEADG TO THE PERSECUTN AND LOSS OF LIVELIHOOD OF UNTLS NOCENT PEOPLE, ME TO BE KNOWN AS MCCARTHYISM. LAVENR SREAROUND THE SAME TIME AS MCCARTHY IMPLEMENTED HIS CHARG AROUND MUNIST FILTRATN, THE SENATOR WOULD ALSO TURN HIS SIGHTS TO THE GAY AND LBIAN MUNI, ALLEGG THAT LGBT ERNMENTAL EMPLOYE ULD BE BLACKMAILED BY ENEMY AGENTS OVER THEIR SEXUALY AND THEREBY BETRAY NATNAL SECRETS. IN 1950, A SPECIAL REPORT DRAWN UP BY THE SENATOR'S REPUBLIN ALLI, THE SENATE MORY AT THE TIME, CED GAY AND LBIAN WORKERS AS A POTENTIAL MORAL THREAT TO THE WORKGS OF THE ERNMENT. IN 1953, {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}PRINT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER WOULD SIGN EXECUTIVE ORR 10450, WHICH SANCTNED THE ADMISTRATIVE POLICY OF TRACKG DOWN GAY-LBIAN ERNMENTAL EMPLOYE AND HAVG THEM FIRED DUE TO THE LABELG OF "SEXUAL PERVERSN" AS AN UNSIRABLE TRA FOR EMPLOYMENT. SR OF EMPLOYE WERE TH FIRED OR RIGNED OUT OF FEAR OF PERSECUTN, WH VAR SURVEILLANCE MEASUR STUTED TO TRY AND TRACK DOWN CIZENS' TIMATE HABS. FRANK KAMENY, PHD, A GAY MAPPG OFFICIAL AND ASTRONOMER WHO WAS FIRED OM HIS JOB, WOULD CHALLENGE THE ORR, ISSUE A GROUNDBREAKG 1961 LEGAL BRIEF TO THE SUPREME COURT (WHICH WOULD NY HIS PETN) AND YEARS LATER ANIZE A PROTT ONT OF THE WHE HOE. DES PASSED BEFORE THE ERNMENTAL AGENCY BAN ON LGBT EMPLOYE WAS OFFICIALLY LIFTED BY PRINT BILL CLTON. TELEVISED HEARGMCCARTHY'S CHARG OF MUNISM AND ANTI-AMERIN ACTIVY AFFECTED MORE AND MORE POWERFUL PEOPLE, CLUDG PRINT EISENHOWER, UNTIL 1954 WHEN A NATNALLY TELEVISED, 36-DAY HEARG ILLTRATED CLEARLY TO THE NATN THAT HE WAS OVERSTEPPG HIS THORY AND ANY IAS OF MON SENSE. (THE HEARGS ALSO FAMOLY PROMPTED SPECIAL UNSEL FOR THE ARMY JOSEPH NYE WELCH TO ASK MCCARTHY, “HAVE YOU NO SENSE OF CENCY SIR, AT LONG LAST? HAVE YOU LEFT NO SENSE OF CENCY?”) BEFORE THE HEARGS, PUBLIC OPN HAD ALSO TURNED AGAST MCCARTHY DUE TO A DISCREDG FEATURE ON EDWARD R. MURROW'S PROGRAM SEE IT NOW. LATER YEARS AND DEATHMCCARTHY WAS EVENTUALLY STRIPPED OF HIS CHAIRMANSHIP AND NMNED ON THE SENATE FLOOR (DEC. 2, 1954) FOR NDUCT “NTRARY TO SENATE TRADNS.” THAT TURNED OUT TO BE THE FAL NAIL THE FF OF THE MCCARTHYISM ERA, AND JOSEPH MCCARTHY HIMSELF FELL OM THE PUBLIC EYE THOUGH HE NTUED TO SERVE CONGRS. A EPLY TROUBLG MOVEMENT HELMED BY A MAGOGUE SPIRED THE 1953 ARTHUR MILLER PLAY THE CCIBLE, WHICH LOOKED AT THE SALEM WCH HUNT TRIALS OF THE 17TH CENTURY TO DRAW PARALLELS TO NTEMPORARY MCCARTHYISM.MCCARTHY WAS HISTORILLY A HEAVY DRKER AND BEME MIRED ALHOLISM AFTER HIS FALL OM PUBLIC POWER. MCCARTHY WOULD EVENTUALLY SUFFER OM LIVER FAILURE AND ON MAY 2, 1957, DIED OF ACUTE HEPATIS AT THE BETHDA NAVAL HOSPAL OUTSI WASHGTON, WH HIS WIFE, THE FORMER JEAN KERR, AT HIS {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS

In 1978 when the actrs was asked to ment on Ana Bryant's anti-gay mpaign, Merman told the reporter, "Some of my bt iends are homosexual. "Harry Hay, founr of the Mattache Society, one of the first gay rights anizatns, nfirmed that Hoover and Tolson sat box owned by and ed exclively by gay men at their racg hnt Del Mar California. I might stir a kettle of worms by makg that statement, but everybody then unrstood that he was a homosexual, not jt the doctors.

"He was totally self-servg and the way which he was a reprsed homosexual didn't require him to abe dividual rights and human liberti the way he did, " said Summers. "The dience I was clearly rooted for Hoover to be gay and to have happs his sex and love life, " said Ben Ryan, a 33-year-old novelist om New York Cy. "The more spic among might thk that the filmmakers were still aaid of Hoover's ghost sug them for libel if they jt put right out there that he was gay.

This gay wch hunt grew out of the post-World War II Red Sre and s subsequent McCarthyism era mpaign to purge munists om the ernment. The ll to remove gay men and lbian women om ernment employment was based on the theory that they were likely to be munist sympathizers and th secury risks.

THE GAY MCCARTHY

The term Lavenr Sre refers to the intifitn and firg of some 5, 000 homosexual people om the US ernment between 1950 and Lavenr Sre was nnected to Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Red Sre heargs tend to purge munists and munist sympathizers om ernment. The terrogatns and firgs of the Lavenr Sre were based on the belief that like munists, homosexuals posed a risk to natnal secury.

After World War II, thoands of young gay people moved to large ci, where the anonymy of numbers facilated same-sex relatnships. At the same time, Ameri was gripped by a fear of munism, homosexualy was seen as another—perhaps even terrelated—lurkg subversive threat. ” The Hoey Commtee’s report, Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts Government, found that om 1948 to 1950, nearly 5, 000 homosexuals had been intified the ary and civilian ernment workforc.

McCarthy argued that bee of their often secretive liftyl, gays were more sceptible to blackmail and th more likely to pose a threat to natnal secury. McCarthy often associated his accatns of munism to accatns of homosexualy, once tellg reporters, “If you want to be agast McCarthy, boys, you’ve got to be eher a Communist or a (explitive).