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The History You Didn’t Learn is a series that sheds light on past events that may have been omitted, misleading, or just downright wrong in our history education in school.
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0:00 What Was the Lavender Scare?
1:05 How the Lavender Scare Targeted LGBTQ Federal Employees
1:29 Why Gay Government Workers Were Called Security Risks
1:42 The False Claim Behind the Lavender Scare
2:08 How the U.S. Government Fired Gay and Lesbian Employees
2:22 Eisenhower’s Security Program and LGBTQ Investigations
2:51 How Suspected Gay Federal Employees Were Interrogated
3:12 How Many People Were Affected by the Lavender Scare?
3:26 The Tragic Story of Andrew Ference
3:57 How the Lavender Scare Spread Beyond Washington
4:32 Why Anti-LGBTQ Government Discrimination Continued After McCarthy
4:52 Frank Kameny’s Fight for LGBTQ Civil Rights
5:08 Frank Kameny Sues the Federal Government
5:35 The First Openly Gay White House Protests
5:50 How Federal Courts Challenged Anti-LGBTQ Job Discrimination
6:07 When the Civil Service Commission Ended Its Anti-Gay Policy
6:27 How Bill Clinton Ended Security Clearance Discrimination
6:36 How Jamie Shoemaker Got His NSA Job Back
7:29 LGBTQ Discrimination in Government Today
7:50 The Transgender Military Ban Explained
8:28 Alonna Lavonh on Serving Openly as a Transgender Sailor
8:47 How the Trans Military Ban Affected Service Members
9:13 Lavender Scare Parallels to the Transgender Military Ban
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