https://padlet.com/eureno/qgatgfaemd4heiaa Find interesting facts for each column and discuss each of their significance in regards to LGBTQ or US as a whole from the reading en-us 2021-05-14 18:15:05 UTC 2021-05-17 18:45:56 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/eureno/qgatgfaemd4heiaa/wish/1532665822 American political leaders saw LGBT people as a threat to National Security.
This is important because it meant if you were LGBT you could lose your job just for being homosexual.]]> 2021-05-17 18:32:25 UTC https://padlet.com/eureno/qgatgfaemd4heiaa/wish/1532665822 https://padlet.com/eureno/qgatgfaemd4heiaa/wish/1532667001 My fact is that In 1952,  Jorgensen

changed her name from George to Christine and became one of the first Americans to undergo sex reassignment surgery. 

the significance of this fact is that  Jorgensen was able to one encourage other people to go for the same surgery and two to be able to challenge the "spectrum of genders"  as the article put it ]]> 2021-05-17 18:32:43 UTC https://padlet.com/eureno/qgatgfaemd4heiaa/wish/1532667001 https://padlet.com/eureno/qgatgfaemd4heiaa/wish/1532667269 Military officials and psychiatrists thought homosexual individuals weren't fit to fight since they believed that homosexuality was a "psychopathic personality disorder". This could cause people to feel ashamed or want to hide who they are because people believed they had a disorder. ]]> 2021-05-17 18:32:47 UTC https://padlet.com/eureno/qgatgfaemd4heiaa/wish/1532667269 1315052001 https://padlet.com/eureno/qgatgfaemd4heiaa/wish/1532667870 It was discovered that homosexuality was a very common thing, which shocked many Americans because they often treated it as a disease or a disorder ]]> 2021-05-17 18:32:56 UTC https://padlet.com/eureno/qgatgfaemd4heiaa/wish/1532667870 1315050816 https://padlet.com/eureno/qgatgfaemd4heiaa/wish/1532671268 This was one of the reasons that led to her becoming well known. ]]> 2021-05-17 18:33:44 UTC https://padlet.com/eureno/qgatgfaemd4heiaa/wish/1532671268 https://padlet.com/eureno/qgatgfaemd4heiaa/wish/1532686248 American people where shocked to find out that homosexuality was mostly found in America. This turned into a argument about it being a disease or not.]]> 2021-05-17 18:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/eureno/qgatgfaemd4heiaa/wish/1532686248 https://padlet.com/eureno/qgatgfaemd4heiaa/wish/1532687281  According 1946,the state department began to quietly root out the LGBT employees, rationalizing,the " purge with claims that they posed a threat to national security.
The Lavender Scare was a law that LGBT people were not allowed to work there jobs because of there sexuality.  ]]> 2021-05-17 18:37:34 UTC https://padlet.com/eureno/qgatgfaemd4heiaa/wish/1532687281 1315060510 https://padlet.com/eureno/qgatgfaemd4heiaa/wish/1532694395 psychologists use something called conversion therapy to try and cure homosexuality which was basically trying to get bad associations with homosexuality and good association with heterosexuality.]]> 2021-05-17 18:39:07 UTC https://padlet.com/eureno/qgatgfaemd4heiaa/wish/1532694395