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    The Lavender Scare was a moral panic about homosexual people in the United States government which led to their mass dismissal from government service...
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    photographs of Hoover in drag allegedly possessed by Cohn. During the Lavender scare, Cohn and McCarthy further enhanced anti-Communist fervor by suggesting...
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    McCarthyism (redirect from Second Red Scare)
    April 28, 2019. Retrieved December 16, 2017. The Lavender Scare helped fan the flames of the Red Scare. In popular discourse, communists and homosexuals...
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    Lavender (floral) (#B57EDC) #B57EDC Lavender (web) (#E6E6FA) #E6E6FA Lavender is a light shade of purple or violet. It applies particularly to the color...
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    played a major role in McCarthy's anti-Communist hearings. During the Lavender Scare, Cohn and McCarthy alleged that Soviet Bloc intelligence services had...
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    Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government". The University of Chicago Press. 2004. The Lavender Scare helped...
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    where both parties were assumed to be gay was called a lavender marriage. The Lavender Scare was a moral panic in the mid-20th century, where LGBT+ people...
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    Little Rock". Eisenhower's administration contributed to the McCarthyist Lavender Scare with Eisenhower issuing Executive Order 10450 in 1953. During Eisenhower's...
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    Lavender Scare, has stated that there is no evidence Webb led or instigated any persecution, nor played "any sort of leadership role in the lavender scare"...
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