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A memo wrten to the Secretary of State 1950 stated that no evince had been found to support the claim that LGBTQ+ people were any threat to natnal secury, and yet “the tenncy toward character weakns has led to the ncln that the known homosexual is unsued for employment the Department. 3 Many thought if you were openly gay, you were more spectable to Soviet blackmail.
The Mattache Society's missn was, “to ‘unify homosexuals‘ [and] to erase om our law books the discrimatory and opprsive legislatn…”6 The founrs also regnized that there was an LGBTQ+ culture that should be celebrated. Sued and 1958 the Supreme Court extend the right of ee speech to the gay prs, markg the first LGBTQ+ rights victory the Supreme Court. One article listed the pros of picketg as prott, statg: “For three years the CSC (Civil Service Commissn) had been explicly refg to meet wh spokmen for the homosexual muny… After the picketg the CSC agreed to a meetg.
The mistst and discrimatn that gay and trans people faced was another example of that sentiment. On July 3rd 1975 the Civil Service Commissn announced that gay people uld no longer be fired om feral employment bee of their sexualy. “The Lavenr Sre and Empire: Rethkg Cold War Antigay Polics.