Who is Worst Lavender Scare or Red Scare?

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Introduction

The Lavender Scare is referred to the fear and harassment of homosexual in the middle of twentieth century. This harassment matched the anti-communism movement called Red Scare. Since the psychiatrist of the American community termed the homosexuality as a psychiatric illness. Gays and lesbians were more susceptible to blackmailing, thus they had security risk (Kennedy & Bailey, 2009).

In the same year, in 1950s Joseph McCarthy put forward a claim that more than 200 communities were hidden in US Department. There was a homosexual underground and for that reason around 91 people, who were homosexual, were fired due to the issues regarding security. Since majority of the homosexual people were out of town and some of them were married. It was assumed by McCarthy that the homosexual community would be blackmailed by the communists in the Federal Government. Moreover they would be forced for providing secrete information regarding the US government (Kennedy & Bailey, 2009).

Discussion

In United States, life got harder in 1940s and 1950s for homosexual people. These people lived in a sex other than the sex assigned to them during their birth. The right wings charges fueled the Red Scare. The peak of the Red Scare hysteria took place in January 1920 when Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer coordinated raids against numerous labor unions and political groups and arrested hundreds of suspected radicals. The primary impetus behind Palmer's actions was the recent upsurge in labor militancy and fear that the Russian Revolution of 1917 would inspire similar actions in the United States.

The individuals specifically included government officials, political figures, and professors from college, teacher, ordinary citizens and people from entertainment industry. Many of the accused were intellectuals, writers, academics and the like, who had expressed ...