{"id":113,"date":"2024-01-19T21:40:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T21:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/?page_id=113"},"modified":"2024-03-07T15:21:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:21:29","slug":"lavender-scare","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/course-syllabus\/lavender-scare\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavender Scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2BXaXIAC_sI?si=L8CCud64reuqa0Ih\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Timeline<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>1947 \/\/ Truman loyalty order<\/li>\n<li>1950 \/\/ (February) McCarthy&#8217;s charges against State Department<\/li>\n<li>1950 \/\/ (March) Revelations of gays expelled from State<\/li>\n<li>1950 \/\/ (June) Humelsine&#8217;s memo on homosexuality<\/li>\n<li>1952 \/\/ Waldeck&#8217;s article on &#8220;Homosexual International&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>1953 \/\/ Eisenhower revises loyalty order<\/li>\n<li>1954 \/\/ (May) Army-McCarthy hearings, including counter-attack on Roy Cohn<\/li>\n<li>1954 \/\/ (December) Senate censures McCarthy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Key Figures<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Carlisle Humelsine &#8211;State Department memo author, leader at Colonial Williamsburg<\/li>\n<li>Henry Luce &#8211;media magnate, Time-Life empire<\/li>\n<li>Rep. Arthur Miller (R-NE) &#8211;doctor and an instigator of &#8220;Lavender Scare&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Hans Morgenthau &#8211;scholar and leader of realist school<\/li>\n<li>John Peurifoy &#8211;State department official in charge of loyalty order<\/li>\n<li>Rosie Waldeck &#8211;author and popularizer of anti-gay fear-mongering<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Timeline 1947 \/\/ Truman loyalty order 1950 \/\/ (February) McCarthy&#8217;s charges against State Department 1950 \/\/ (March) Revelations of gays expelled from State 1950 \/\/ (June) Humelsine&#8217;s memo on homosexuality 1952 \/\/ Waldeck&#8217;s article on &#8220;Homosexual International&#8221; 1953 \/\/ Eisenhower revises loyalty order 1954 \/\/ (May) Army-McCarthy hearings, including counter-attack on Roy Cohn 1954 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-113","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}