Special Report: The Lavender Scare (2019)

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4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

On this special episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks to Josh Howard the director of The Lavender Scare (2019) a documentary about the systematic purge of gays and lesbians from the government in the 1950s and how the injustices they faced helped spur the Gay Liberation Movement.

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:05.7	We have your friend in the next room.
0:08.7	She's already told us that you're gay.
0:11.0	You give us the names of others and we'll go easier on you.
0:16.0	Somebody will please come toward you.
0:19.0	Homosexual must not be handling top secret material.
0:23.7	The pervert is easy prey to the blackmailer.
0:27.7	It started this lavender scare.
0:29.6	It started this systematic campaign to identify and remove all suspected gay men and lesbians
0:36.7	from the Federal Civil Service.
0:40.6	It was the most wonderful country in the world,
0:43.3	and you should serve it.
0:45.7	And then I found out they didn't want me.
0:49.3	I was called to the FBI office.
0:52.2	They wouldn't allow legal representation. I was a scared kid. They wouldn't allow legal representation.
0:54.9	I was a scared kid.
0:56.6	They wouldn't reveal the evidence.
0:58.5	They said, we have information.
1:00.6	You are homosexual?
1:02.5	Do you have any comment?
1:03.5	And they would threaten exposure.
1:05.5	I submitted my resignation.
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