Known as the Lavender Scare, it began in the late 1940s and referred to the moral panic concerning mainly gay men, but also lesbians, taking up posts in the US government.
On 9 February 1950, McCarthy delivered his now-infamous speech in which he claimed to have a list of 205 known Communists working at the State Department. Two were said to be gay.
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