Gay People Are Hunted Down and Beaten in a Country Once a Refuge
The PR person for Latinos pro Derechos Humanos, Manolo Gomez, who’d arranged the radio “debate,” was beaten and left for dead in an alley. His car was firebombed. He was also fired from his job as an editor for the Spanish-language edition of Cosmopolitan magazine because he’d made public declarations about his homosexuality.
Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
Additionally, the process in which investigations were completed exposed an individual's private life, irreparably damaging their relationships with family and friends. The effects rippled into local gay communities, limiting interaction among community members.There was fear of being outed by undercover investigators or by those who had been... See more
Executive Order 10450: Eisenhower and the Lavender Scare (U.S. National Park Service)
A thousand gays—many of them more willing to come out for a party than they’d been to come out for campaign work—dressed formally in suits and ties despite the South Florida weather, now stood stunned and tearful, looking up at the screens that told them that most of their neighbors loathed them.