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The Lavender Scare
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The Lavender Scare in the Civil Service
The Norton case comes down at the beginning of July 1969. The court basically says to the government, look, your justifications for firing someone just for being gay or lesbian are not good enough. On July 3, 1975, six years after the Norton ruling, Frank Cammony received a phone call from the Chief Counsel of the Civil Service Commission. He told them that they would be issuing new regulations that didn't specifically bar homosexuals from employment in the government.
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