The Lavenr Sre Chronicl Anti-Gay Purg of the 1950s

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PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY DEZART PERFORMS The documentary, The Lavenr Sre, ptur a time Ameri when gay men and lbians were harassed, huiated, and hound om their jobs the name of natnal secury. The searg documentary by Emmy award-wng Josh Howard chronicl the anti-gay purg of the 1950s. A panel discsn will follow the screeng featurg Michael Green, founr/artistic director, Palm Sprgs Cultural Center; Jean-Marie Navetta, director of Learng & Incln for PFLAG; Alexis Ortega, director of Communy Engagement, LGBTQ Communy Center of the Dert, and morated by David Perry, founr, Rabow Honor Walk/ 10% Joseph McCarthy's anti-munist mpaign paralleled the pursu of homosexual men and women as secury screeng’s timg is not a cince.

11 – 20 Palm Sprgs, the play als, fictnalized form, wh the same issu alt wh Howard’s documentary: the systemic and systematic discrimatn of homosexuals the employment of the Uned Stat ernment. In 1953, Print Dwight Eisenhower clared gay men and lbians to be a threat to the secury of the untry and therefore unf for ernment service. They advertently helped igne the gay rights movement.