cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/news/p/1119341/former-cia-officers-warn-trump-s-administration-is-reviving-the-lavender-scare-endangering-n
Three intelligence veterans say the agency’s dismantling of LGBTQ+ programs threatens national security and reverses decades of hard-won progress.
Funny to me they assigned lavender to be the gay color or something lol
I got curious so I looked on Wikipedia
The term for this persecution was popularized by David K. Johnson’s 2004 book which studied this anti-homosexual campaign, The Lavender Scare. The book drew its title from the term “lavender lads”, used repeatedly by Senator Everett Dirksen as a synonym for homosexual males. In 1952, Dirksen said that a Republican victory in the November elections would mean the removal of “the lavender lads” from the State Department.[6][7] The phrase was also used by Confidential magazine, a periodical known for gossiping about the sexuality of politicians and prominent Hollywood stars.[8]
What a joker , this doesn’t even break the top 5 ways he is endangering national security.
If Putin wants information, all he has to do is ask.