Lavender Scare – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:50:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Lavender Scare – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 The Lavender Scare: Civil Rights Violations of Federal Workers, 1940s-1960s https://brewminate.com/the-lavender-scare-civil-rights-violations-of-federal-workers-1940s-1960s/ Sun, 14 Mar 2021 18:09:30 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=144433 Thousands of gay employees were fired or forced to resign from the federal workforce. Introduction The Red Scare,

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]]> The Lavender Scare and Beyond: Documenting LGBTQ History from the Great Depression to Today https://brewminate.com/the-lavender-scare-and-beyond-documenting-lgbtq-history-from-the-great-depression-to-today/ Mon, 17 Jun 2019 19:07:43 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=100052 It’s really only in the past three decades that we’ve come to recognize the need to understand the

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]]> The Lavender Scare: Joseph McCarthy’s Other Crusade https://brewminate.com/the-lavender-scare-joseph-mccarthys-other-crusade/ Thu, 09 May 2019 17:32:38 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=94183 This witch-hunt harmed even more people than did the Red Scare, often trying to throw people under both

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