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Fellow Travellers: What was the Lavender Scare?
The Lavender Scare was a moral panic that targeted mainly gay men and lesbians working in the US government in the late 1940s.
Staunch Republican senator Joseph McCarthy and lawyer Roy Cohn played significant roles in fueling the Lavender Scare. [ more ]