The Jtice Department mt search for and release historil rerds pertag to a “purge” of gay feral employe by the FBI unr J. Edgar Hoover.
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- EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS
- PERVED: EISENHOWER ANTI-GAY EXECUTIVE ORR TURNS 60
- JTICE DEPARTMENT ORRED TO RELEASE 1950S GAY 'PURGE' DOCUMENTS
EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS
On the morng of April 27, 1953, Print Dwight D. Eisenhower clared war on homosexuals. In one of his first official acts after takg office, Eisenhower issued Executive Orr 10450, which banned gay men and lbians om workg for any agency of the feral ernment. * anti gay executive order *
Our Natn has ma great stris fulfillg the fundamental promis of eedom and equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and tersex (LGBTQI+) Amerins, owg to the learship of generatns of LGBTQI+ dividuals. "The new measur ci wh a recent surge charged rhetoric surroundg how and whether children should learn about LGBTQ recent months, nservative lawmakers, televisn punds and other public figur have acced opponents of a newly enacted Florida tn law, which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law, of tryg to “groom” or “doctrate” children.
The word “groomg” has long been ed to mischaracterize LGBTQ people, particularly gay men and transgenr women, as child sex abers. Print Bin has appoted a historilly diverse Admistratn, cludg Secretary Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay Cabet Secretary; Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Rachel Leve, the first openly transgenr person ever nfirmed by the U.
PERVED: EISENHOWER ANTI-GAY EXECUTIVE ORR TURNS 60
* anti gay executive order *
Senate; Ambassador Chantale Wong, the first open lbian to achieve the rank of Ambassador; and the first openly gay Whe Hoe Counsel, Stuart Delery. Though marriage equaly is the law of the land, the Whe Hoe has taken steps to lim or undo gay rights several key policy areas, such as lobbyg to give relig adoptn agenci the right to refe same-sex upl.
What this means practilly is the Bin admistratn will now nsir discrimatn agast transgenr stunts to be a vlatn of Tle IX, and discrimatn agast gay or lbian people hog cisns to be agast the law.
However, sex is not nsired a protected class unr feral public acmodatns law, so ’s still possible for private enti to ny a trans person accs to a bathroom matchg their genr inty or for a b driver to ny a ri to a gay uple. " Some 800 homosexuals were fired or had rigned by 1955, acrdg to David Johnson, thor of The Lavenr Sre.
JTICE DEPARTMENT ORRED TO RELEASE 1950S GAY 'PURGE' DOCUMENTS
Untold thoands more were hound and banned om public service for s to historic anim of the feral ernment toward homosexuals, now a factor U. Hardwick, upholdg anti-gay sodomy laws.
Sir journalist Evan Thomas' bgraphy foc on the print's nny foreign policy strategy while ignorg the State Department purg of homosexuals. If one accepts the histori as a ntemporary mastream nsens, the "Lavenr Sre" is but a footnote to McCarthyism, or never better unrstand this plete letn of gay polil history, last year I vised the Dwight D.
Edgar Hoover had given Eisenhower his report: Vannberg was homosexual.