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UNCLE SAM DIDN’T WELE GAY EMPLOYE

When to the history of the feral ernment’s treatment of gay employe, Uncle Sam should hang his head ’s history is not jt one of blockg gay men and lbians om gettg jobs or promotns. Documents dite that the ernment actively sought them out for dry language of a Jtice Department legal brief, filed July 2011 the se of a feral urt employee seekg health benefs for her same-sex wife, outl the feral ernment's "signifint and regrettable role the history of discrimatn agast gay and lbian dividuals. "“For years, the feral ernment emed gays and lbians unf for employment, barrg them om feral jobs on the basis of their sexual orientatn, ” the brief language of bigotry is not so dry.

A November 1950 Senate submtee report ced the brief monstrated the gree of homophobia harsh, offensive terms. The report's tle: "Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts Government.

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"After nng through one stereotype after another and sayg gay people “mt be treated as transgrsors, ” the report renrs the panel’s ncln: “In the opn of this submtee homosexuals and other sex perverts are not proper persons to be employed Government for two reasons; first, they are generally unsuable and send, they nstute secury risks. ”It’s te that gay men and lbians the closet of a homophobic world uld be blackmail targets. ”Lt one thk this reprents more bark than be, the report says “that between January 1, 1947, and Augt 1, 1950, approximately 1, 700 applints for Feral posns were nied employment bee they had a rerd of homosexualy or other sex perversn.

“In the past 50 or 60 years, we have gone om overt wch hunts that terrified feral employe to Executive Branch polici that are firmly welg of LGBT [lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr] workers, ” said Jennifer C. "The Jtice brief said that "the Orr expand the vtigatns of civilian employe for 'sexual perversn' to clu every agency and partment of the feral ernment, and th had the effect of requirg the termatn of all gay people om feral employment....

“The feral ernment enforced Executive Orr 10450 zealoly, engagg var agenci tsive vtigatory techniqu to purge gays and lbians om the feral civilian workforce. ”Quotg a 2006 Texas Law Review article tled “Where Everythg Old Is New Aga — Endurg Episodic Discrimatn Agast Homosexual Persons, ” by Edward L.

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Tul, the brief said that “the State Department, for example, charged ‘skilled vtigators’ wh ‘terrogatg every potential male applint to disver if they had any effemate tennci or mannerisms, ’ ed polygraphs on dividuals acced of homosexualy who nied , and sent spectors ‘to every embassy, nsulate, and missn’ to unver homosexualy. ”Cg rearch by the Williams Instute, the Jtice Department said: “In orr to intify gays and lbians the civil service, the FBI ‘sought out state and lol police officers to supply arrt rerds on morals charg, regardls of whether there were nvictns. The end rult was thoands of men and women forced om their feral jobs based on the spicn that they were gay or lbian.

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"The extent of the change is monstrated, to ce one example, by the fact that the current director of the Office of Personnel Management, John Berry, is an openly gay, protectns agast sexual orientatn discrimatn “are only effective if the feral workforce knows they exist and how to make e of them, ” said Brian Moulton, legal director of the Human Rights Campaign. “Unr the Obama admistratn and the learship of John Berry at OPM, there has been a ncerted effort to ensure that lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr feral workers, as well as their managers and lleagu, know that they have the right to be treated fairly, and have reurse if they are not.

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