Timeline

  • 1947 // Truman loyalty order
  • 1950 // (February) McCarthy’s charges against State Department
  • 1950 // (March) Revelations of gays expelled from State
  • 1950 // (June) Humelsine’s memo on homosexuality
  • 1952 // Waldeck’s article on “Homosexual International”
  • 1953 // Eisenhower revises loyalty order
  • 1954 // (May) Army-McCarthy hearings, including counter-attack on Roy Cohn
  • 1954 // (December) Senate censures McCarthy

Key Figures

  • Carlisle Humelsine –State Department memo author, leader at Colonial Williamsburg
  • Henry Luce –media magnate, Time-Life empire
  • Rep. Arthur Miller (R-NE) –doctor and an instigator of “Lavender Scare”
  • Hans Morgenthau –scholar and leader of realist school
  • John Peurifoy –State department official in charge of loyalty order
  • Rosie Waldeck –author and popularizer of anti-gay fear-mongering