196. The Lavender Scare

Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood · Jun 15, 2026 · 59m · transcript

In the era of McCarthyism, thousands of people were forced out of the federal government for being gay. Victims purged from positions, because being a homosexual was to be a threat to to national security...allegedlys

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