Learn about the attempts to purge the US ary and feral ernment of gay and lbian employe durg the Cold War and s later.
Contents:
- YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD OF THE RED SRE, BUT THE LSER-KNOWN, ANTI-GAY 'LAVENR SRE' IS RARELY TGHT SCHOOLS
- GAY HISTORY: 9 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT ‘THE LAVENR SRE’
- THE LAVENR SRE: GAY AND LBIAN LIFE POST-WWII AMERI
- HOW A LAVENR RHO BEME A SYMBOL OF GAY RISTANCE IN '70S BOSTON
YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD OF THE RED SRE, BUT THE LSER-KNOWN, ANTI-GAY 'LAVENR SRE' IS RARELY TGHT SCHOOLS
We learn about the Red Sre school, but not about the Lavenr Sre, the policy that discrimated agast gay ernment employe * lavender gay history *
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GAY HISTORY: 9 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT ‘THE LAVENR SRE’
(Above, right, powerful and closeted gay lawyer Roy Cohn was stmental creatg anti-Communist fervor.) Filmmaker Josh Howard discs his forthg documentary on dark days Amerin history. Tomorrow's a lamentable anniversary for the Uned Stat: was 60 years ago, on April 27, 1953, that Print Eisenhower put his John Hanck an executive orr… * lavender gay history *
Gay men Ameri were tnted for posssg a “dash” or “streak” of lavenr, thanks large part to Abraham Lln’s bgrapher Carl Sandburg, who scribed one of the print’s early male iendships as ntag a “streak of lavenr, and spots soft as May vlets. Durg the McCarthy era, there was state-sanctned discrimatn when print Eisenhower signed Executive Orr 10450, which beme part of a natnal wch-hunt to purge homosexual men and women om the feral ernment.
THE LAVENR SRE: GAY AND LBIAN LIFE POST-WWII AMERI
From Regency England to 1920s Harlem to Miss Piggy, gay vernacular has given voice to homosexual inty and sire a hostile world. In some parts, still do. * lavender gay history *
Lavenr sash and armbands were distributed to a crowd of hundreds a “gay power” march om Washgton Square Park to Stonewall Inn New York, to memorate the Stonewall rts that had jt taken place a month before.
HOW A LAVENR RHO BEME A SYMBOL OF GAY RISTANCE IN '70S BOSTON
* lavender gay history *
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