During the cold war, homosexuality was a huge concern in America. “Lavender Scare” is what it is referred to, where…

The era in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s where a fear of communism was to grasp the United States.…

In Andrea Friedman’s article, Smearing of Joe McCarthy, we see how homophobia was weaponized during the Cold War era, to…

Lavender is the new Red or something like that. In the 1950s communist purges were occurring throughout the United States.…

During the Cold War, the “Lavender Scare” was when anyone who was a suspected homosexual, were found, detained, and dismissed…

The “Lavender Scare” refers to the widespread fear of gay people and homosexuality during the time of the Cold War.…

The Lavander Scare was a fear among the United States people that there were homosexual people within our government. This…

In McCarthy’s era of politics, America was being united against a domestic foreign enemy; the fear of Communists and especially…

The Lavender Scare was a period of time in which thousands of people identifying as LGBT were forced to resign…

The Lavender Scare can be described as a period of moral panic about members of the LGBTQ+ community, specifically those…