Lavender Scare

Lavender Scare

The US Government (which Occupied West Germany and Parts of Austria) after World War 2 decided to add parts of West Germany’s Paragraph 175 into Official Practice with the Lavender Scare.

In 1947 President Truman signed Executive Order 9835. Known as the Loyalty Order it sought to weed-out Communists and Homosexuals from the US Federal Government (Mainly the State Department) and the US Military.

From 1947-1953 3 Million People were investigated and 300 were fired from their jobs or Discharged from the US Military.

In 1953 President Eisenhower signed Executive Order 10450 (which expanded The Loyalty Order and banned Homosexuals from applying for work throughout the whole US Federal Government and for serving in the US Military.)

US Senator Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn helped bring about the Mass Hysteria and Witch Hunts when they brought Investigations and Charges against many Homosexuals and Suspected-Homosexuals from 1947-1954.

McCarthy was Censured for his abuse of Power in 1954. He died of Alcoholism in 1957.

Cohn was disbarred in 1986 for Unethical Conduct. He died of AIDS in 1986.

From 1947-1973 10,000 Federal Employees were fired for being Homosexual (and unknown number of Job Applicants were also investigated and not hired for being Homosexual.)

From 1940-2011 over 100,000 Homosexuals were kicked-out of the US Military (including 14,000 during the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Era from 1993 to 2011.)

Those fired or not even hired for being Homosexual didn’t just lose a job, but the US Government sent their records to their State for further investigation (Homosexuality was also illegal in most States until a few started Decriminalizing it in 1961 and it became legal nationwide in 2003) as well as to any Place looking for a reference to hire these people.

In 1975 the US Federal Government agreed to hire Homosexuals on a “case-by-case basis.”

In 1977 the State Department ended its ban on Homosexuals working for them.

Homosexuals have been able to serve openly in the US Military since 2011.

Same-Sex Marriage became legal nationwide in the US in 2015 (except for some Indian Reservations and the US Territory of American Samoa.)

Executive Order 9835 and Executive Order 10450 were repealed in 2017, when President Obama signed Executive Order 13764.

Again, the US’ Lavender Scare and the Official Anti-Homosexual Federal Laws were created after seeing how Kaiser Germany, the Weimer Republic, Nazi Germany, West Germany and the United Germany used Paragraph 175.

There is currently a new Lavender Scare causing Unnecessary Mass Moral Panic across the United States (the same way it did in the 1940s-1970s.)

Currently, the US States of Alabama, Texas and Florida have Official Anti-Homosexual Laws.

Many other US States are also looking into creating their own Anti-Homosexual Laws.

The US Federal Government is also looking into doing away with Gay Marriage and many other Federal Homosexual Protections.

Politicians and Groups of People across the United States are trying to cause panic and fear against Homosexuals so attention is deflected from the real issues and so People have a Scapegoat to blame all their problems on.