The Lavender Scare was a moral panic about homosexual people in the United States government which led to their mass dismissal from government service during the mid-20th century. It contributed to and paralleled the anti-communist campaign which is known as McCarthyism and the Second Red Scare. [1] .

2023年4月27日 · The Lavender Scare was a moral panic in the United States in the mid-20th century over the supposed security threat posed by gay and lesbian federal employees. It roughly coincided with the Red Scare and lasted from about 1947 to 1975.

2023年6月2日 · Beginning in the late 1940s and continuing through the 1960s, thousands of gay employees were fired or forced to resign from the federal workforce because of their sexuality. Dubbed the Lavender Scare, this wave of repression was also bound up with anti-Communism and fueled by the power of congressional investigation.

2020年12月22日 · Known as the “Lavender Scare,” the policy was based on the unfounded fear that gay men and lesbians “posed a threat to national security because they were vulnerable to blackmail and were ...

这个艾森豪威尔时代的故事记录了全国性的“女巫猎杀”故事：当同性恋男女被国家调查并因为性取向而失去工作，当跨性别者被禁止在军队服役，当一位恐同的面包师拒绝向LGBT顾客提供结婚蛋糕，这提醒我们，特朗普政府正在逐渐削弱对LGBT人群的保护，而我们可以一直斗争到最高法院并取得胜利。 “我确实认为历史上的‘薰衣草恐慌’事件是一个需要记录的重要时刻，但我并没有预料到其中的一些史实会和当下的时事如此贴合，”霍华德说，他是一位经验丰富的电视新闻制作 …

2019年11月27日 · The “Lavender Scare” refers to the identification and mass firings of thousands of homosexual people from the U.S. federal government during the 1950s. This gay witch hunt grew out of the post-World War II Red Scare and its subsequent McCarthyism era campaign to purge communists from the government.

2018年6月5日 · The period—considered as targeted and as widespread as the concurrent Red Scare—is now known as the Lavender Scare. Between the late 1940s and early 1960s, an unknown number of LGBT employees...

2025年3月12日 · The lavender scare is a pluperfect example of what sociologists refer to as a “moral panic,” that is, when a perceived threat is blown out of proportion and becomes widely acknowledged as a serious danger to physical safety or to society’s values. Responses to moral panics typically result in legal and policy actions that are aimed at ...

In The Lavender Scare, David K. Johnson tells the frightening story of how, during the Cold War, homosexuals were considered as dangerous a threat to national security as Communists. Charges that the Roosevelt and Truman administrations were havens for homosexuals proved a potent political weapon, sparking a “Lavender Scare” more vehement ...

In his book, The Lavender Scare, author David K. Johnson explains how this concern grew in the 1930s and 1940s after sweeping changes caused by the New Deal and World War II seemed to throw American society on its head.