Black Sheep and Bad Apples

59 The Lavender Scare


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Loren is joined by his friend Terry to discuss the time the United States Government was afraid of homosexuality.


Some sources, because I fucked-up the original source file;

[1]

https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/red-scare


[2]

https://reference.jrank.org/populism/McCarthy_Joseph_19081957.html


[3]

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/senator-mccarthys-nazi-problem-180975174/


[4]

https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=3633


[5]

https://outhistory.org/items/show/1425


[6]

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/american-masculinity-after-world-war-ii


[7]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-being-gay-was-considered-a-national-security-threat


[8]

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/anna-m-rosenberg-world-war-ii


[9]

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/19/roy-cohn-donald-trump-documentary-228144/


[10]

https://www.attitude.co.uk/uncategorised/the-lavender-scare-a-history-of-the-anti-gay-witch-hunt-403990/


[11]

https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2016/summer/lavender.html


[12]

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Senator_Lester_Hunts_Decision.htm


[13]

https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/censure.htm


[14]

https://daily.jstor.org/the-lavender-scare/


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