#all this shit on trans folks of these maga freaks screaming THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN

[kitkatcadillac]

happy pride.

back in the 50s there was a thing called the lavender scare. the mccarthy campaign began an investigation and mass firing of homosexuals in government work places under the explanation that gay people were more receptive to communist mind tricks and therefor a national security risk, ergo, might as well be a bunch of fascists as it is, starting a hideous snowballing of queer stereotypes that persist to this day.

one of mccarthys campaigning lines was that if you didnt vote for him, you were either a commie or a cocksucker.

along with that, it pushed it more into the public conscience that being gay was a mental illness, and/or that homosexuality was unhygienic, uncouth, unamerican. it was here that there were more big pushes for a "nuclear family," which of course worshipped the image of a (christian) cishet man and wife pair with at least two children; preferably a boy and a girl.

none of the claims about hygiene, about mental health, about soundness of mind or resistance to """commie mind tricks""" were ever backed up by any scientific evidence; it was all sensationalist, obviously. and many people suffered for it. people were ostracized, laid off, targeted- and not just for being gay, but simply being SUSPECTED. both gay men and lesbians came under fire for this exceptionally.

there were books written at the time, pamphlets, programs, on how to spot potential homosexuals. people were wild about it. plenty of times it wasnt even called homosexuality, it was "sexual psychopathy" and put on the same level as p*do and animal attraction.

its a good google trip. a good youtube trip, too, honestly. id highly recommend going and looking into the history yourself if you havent heard of or dont know much about the lavender scare. it makes a lot of what ignorant people regurgitate over and over again sound... echo-y. like damn did you blow the dust off that bigotry before you used it??? shits an antique.

and if thats a lot of words to READ, heres a start on that youtube trip of The Cold War (user) talking a bit about it. and you can listen instead of listen to me blab