🕯️ On This Day in LGBTQ+ History: February 21
⚠️ February 21, 1950: Senator Joseph McCarthy escalates the Lavender Scare in Washington, DC
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#LGBTQHistory #LavenderScare #CivilRights #LGBTQDC
It was nearly 50 years after #Truman & Eisenhower’s #LavenderScare that the military, under #BillClinton, took on “ #DontAskDontTell ” allowing #queers to serve if they kept silent about their sexual orientation. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt.
DYK Dwight D. #Eisenhower’s 1953 Executive Order 10450 forbade federal agencies from hiring anyone practicing "sexual perversion"—#QueerSex? Members of the #LavenderScare could not be in the military or take jobs w/federal contractors!
#OnThisDay 1954
The U.S. Senate voted to censure #JosephMcCarthy for “conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute.” McCarthy was a demagogue whose propaganda tactics led to a period known as the Second #RedScare as well as the #LavenderScare
Is the Lavender Scare Back? FBI Firing of Gay Agent Says Yes. #FBI #Gay #LavenderScare #GayFBIAgent #KashPatel
Conservative anti-gay American politician Joseph McCarthy, whose purges of homosexuals, Communists and homosexual Communists terrorised 1950s America, was BOTD in 1908. #josephmccarthy #lavenderscare #bornonthisday
It's only a matter of time before this riff-raff ends up starting a #LavenderScare.
#Boots on #Netflix is a legit show!
People should just try to be human, step outside their close-mindedness and put themselves in the shoes of #LGBTQ people!
Understand the impact of #Anti-LGBTQ policies, like #LavenderScare #Don'tAskDon'tTell #HegsethCultureWar and they might understand!
#Resist
Bradbury said that he wrote “Fahrenheit 451” because of his concerns about the threat of book burning in the United States. It was written in the midst of the #SecondRedScare and the #LavenderScare brought about by the right-wing demagogue Senator #JosephMcCarthy,
The #LavenderScare #TheLavenderLads purging #LGBT people from government roles and cascading stigma in America with Confidential Magazine gossiping & rumour mongering. Parallels with McCarthyism. Nothing new. Just a re-run of past hatreds put into action.
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72 years ago President Dwight Eisenhower signed Executive Order 10450, expanding on Truman’s federal employment regulations to exclude federal employees of “sexual perversion.” Because of this EO it is estimated that at least 10,000 LGBTQ civil servants lost their jobs.
#LavenderScare
Still jumping through global distribution hurdles (everything is taking longer because of the number of AI written books being pumped into the system + Visa / Collective Shout bs increasing censorship of independent media.) Animals & Deviants is still coming!
#Books #detectivenoir #lavenderscare
McEntarfer was an easy target for this administration.
It’s a new #lavenderscare
#LavenderScare #QueerHistory #LGBTQResistance #WeWontBeErased #TransRightsAreHumanRights #SayGay #VisibilityMatters #ProtectQueerYouth #LGBTQVoices #SolidarityNotSilence
Glad that Vera Rubin is outshining a telescope named after a homophobe and someone who wasn’t an astronomer, which is the norm for naming telescopes.
#verarubin #jameswebb #telescopes #lgbtq #gay #history #lavenderscare #homophobia #science #bigotry
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LGBTQIA History/Herstory/Theirstory. We will Not go back in the closet!!
#lavenderscare #HappyPride #lgbtqia
www.thelavenderscare.com/trailer
It would make more sense than why he's ACTUALLY doing it, tbh
#harvard #dei #democracy #freepalestine #lavenderscare #mccarthyism #witchhunt #othering
Οι "free speech absolutists" που βοήθησαν τον Τραμπ να ανέβει στην εξουσία στήσανε ένα καθεστώς που κάνει το #RedScare & το #LavenderScare να μοιάζουν με παράδεισο ελευθερίας. Σκατά σε όλους τους τραμπιστές.
Behind The Mask, Taylor Prescott
Queer artists thrived behind 1950s conformity, shaping U.S. pop culture through coded art, fashion, and resistance. A vibrant look at resilience, identity, and legacy.
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#QueerBooks #QueerHistory #TaylorPrescott #LavenderScare
Evil monsters are roaming the streets, allowed to wield guns and harass innocent citizens. This is cruel. This is fucked up. This should not be happening.
Be careful out there everyone, this is our reality again. History is doomed when we don’t listen-Protect each other. #LavenderScare #FightBack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_10450 I take back all of the nice things I’ve said about #Eisenhower . #TIL #LavenderScare
Prepping a lesson from @historysandoval.bsky.social on the #lavenderscare and @pbs.org deleted their video on this topic. Along with the whole lesson. Any suggestions on other resources that are good for 9th grade US history? #sschat
