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Those who support and are not part of the LGTBQ+ community

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Frank Kameny had a role in the Army Map Service but was fired in 1957 due to his Homosexuality, deciding to fight the decision of being fired he blamed the firing on the discrimination on a civil rights issue "By 1965, Kameny and other gay men and lesbians were picketing outside the White House and helping other fired employees with their court cases."
Later Kameny was the first man to keep his role and security clearance. Soon in 1995, President Bill Clinton passed a law terminating discrimination based on sexual orientation

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The government soon found that Ference had a roommate who was a lot closer to him than usual roommate and he was immediately fired after the decision of him being a homosexual. He was soon found dead after being fired.

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It was deemed an infiltration of the government when they discovered that there were queer employees in the government system, who were soon terminated

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"We learn about the Red Scare in school, but not about the Lavender Scare, the policy that discriminated against gay government employees."

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Both homosexuals and Communist Party members were seen as subversive elements in American society who all shared the same ideals of antitheism, rejection of bourgeois culture and middle-class morality, and lack of conformity. “posed a threat to national security because they were vulnerable to blackmail and were considered to have weak moral characters,” says historian David K. Johnson.

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The "lavender scare" was a moral panic about homosexual people in the United States government which led to their mass dismissal from government service during the mid-20th century.