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Remember when being gay was considered the worst type of security risk?
Monday, May 15, 2017The same people who tried to prevent us from serving our country now look a lot like the potential traitors we were accused of being. -
John Kerry apologizes for former abuse of gay & lesbian government employees
Tuesday, January 10, 2017One employee made gay accusations because of “the effeminate mannerisms of hand” and the “jelly hand shake” of some male colleagues. -
LGBT Rights: What have we learned from history?
Sunday, August 5, 2012Historically, discussions about the decline of morality have almost always been subsumed into fears about national security, and the rise of McCarthyism was no different. Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that both communists and homosexuals had infiltrated…
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