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The Lavender Scare
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The History of Sexual Psychopaths
By the time Joseph McCarthy gave that first speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, the United States was already deeply suspicious of gay people. So it didn't take long for other senators to take his accusations and run with them. There's a whole series of congressional investigations into the employment of homosexuals and other sex perverts in the government in 1950. One of those investigations, the biggest one, was called the Holy Committee. It was bipartisan, and it set out to answer the following question: How many sexual psychopaths do you know who are employed by the U.S. government? And if there are more than two or three homosexual employees at any given time, what is their relationship between each
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