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Omaha Steve

(99,793 posts) Wed Apr 29, 2015, 07:26 PM Apr 2015

4-27-15 “Lavender Scare” LGBT in 2:00

http://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/april-27-1430141494/

You have probably heard about the Red Scare, when thousands of people lost their jobs in the 1950s for allegedly harboring Communist sympathies. But have you ever heard of the “Lavender Scare” that happened during those same years?

2:00 minute audio at link.

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4-27-15 “Lavender Scare” LGBT in 2:00 (Original Post) Omaha Steve Apr 2015 OP

News to me NoJusticeNoPeace Apr 2015 #1

NoJusticeNoPeace

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1. News to me

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Wed Apr 29, 2015, 07:29 PM

Apr 2015

Can you imagine being gay back then.

I cant get over the Alan Turing story.

Literally made it possible for so many bigots to be alive and work at destroying his and other gay folks lives.

fuck

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