LC control no. | sh2006003261 |
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Topical heading | Gay people in the civil service |
Variant(s) | Gays in the civil service |
See also | Civil service |
Found in | Work cat.: Poupart, C.A. When will my turn come? : the Civil Service purges and the construction of a gay security risk in the Cold War United States, 1945-1955, 2005: PDF abstr. (investigations and purges of suspected gays from the Civil Service began in 1950; widespread dismissals and intensified repression of gays and lesbians) PDF p. 1 (dismissals of homosexuals (both genuine and suspected) from the United States Civil Service as perceived security risks; gays in government) p. 29 (homosexual public servants) p. 77 (gay civil servants) p. 109 (government employees investigated and removed on homosexual grounds) An interview with David K. Johnson, author of The Lavender Scare : the Cold War persecution of gays and lesbians in the federal government, via WWW, Apr. 26, 2006 (gay civil servants; gay and lesbian civil servants; gay and lesbian civil service employment; the homosexuals-in-government issue; several thousand gay men and lesbians lost government jobs; government workers) |