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The Lavender Scare
By the time the Lavender Scare officially ended, thousands of people had been fired or forced to resign. The State Department alone is on record as having fired 1,400 suspected gay men and lesbians through the 60s. If you extrapolate for the whole federal government, that's 5 to 10,000 people who probably lost their jobs.