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President Eisenhower's Executive Order 10450 decreed homosexuality to be grounds for termination.
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Then Senator Charley Johns claimed to oppose the Ku Klux Klan, but voted against the 1951 bill that would have unmasked the Klansmen and ended cross burning.
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"The origins of homosexuality are obscure, as is the question of whether it is a sin or a sickness. "
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The Kinsey Report portrayed homosexual activity as taking place "in every age group, in every social level, in every conceivable occupation, in cities and on farms and in the most remote areas of the country. "
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State law mandated that Florida schoolteachers must exemplify "patriotism and the practice of every Christian virtue".
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The NAACP maintained no official stance on homosexuality other than it being an illegal act worthy of arrest or military discharge.
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Strickland became fixated on the notion of female softball players as a primary function of a women's softball league wasn't sporting competition and socialization but lesbian incubation.
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For white Klansmen to go unpunished for destroying materials and for NAACP leaders to be charged for failing to produce materials reflected the flouting of an extrajudicial process that professed to be color blind.
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The term "flogging" was widely used by Florida Klansmen and state officials to mean nonfatal lynching.
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Many youngsters of the southern cadre viewed homosexuality as a playful activity a personal indulgence distinct from "real" sex with women.
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In 1887 Florida became the first state to mandate segregated railroad train cars.
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Erin, there's a marvelous moment in the documentary BEFORE STONEWALL where a gay member of the WACS during the war told Eisenhower, "fire us and you lose half your staff". Ike relented and rescinded his order.
I need to watch Before Stonewall
And now they’re talking about overturning Obergefell v. Hodges… 🤦🏼♀️ Makes me wonder if my gay friends (well, I only have one very close gay friend right now, very different from university days) - a white male - will still support Trump if he takes away their right to love and marry who they please. It’s complete insanity.
I’m reading Medical Apartheid right now, which I saw you and one other friend of mine on here had also read (I believe Vanessa? A friend we have in common). I have no idea how Washington was able to complete this project given how repulsive the history is, but I certainly commend her on doing such an amazing job at presenting it in such an academic, fact-based manner. It’s this approach that helps those ignorant on the subject to finally open their eyes to the atrocities committed. The fact that there wasn’t more outrage when Kim Kardashian parodied Saartjie Baartman on the cover of Paper magazine says it all. 😔
I literally had to put it down for a bit when the hideous Dr. Sims performed a completely unnecessary surgery removing an enslaved man’s jawbone, to which, of course, the man fought against having performed. Then the man escapes, with Sims writing in his medical report, “Sam’s mouth is now always open in a wide grin.” 🤢 How sadistic can people be?! And now people continue to further support an administration that wants to deny the past. Awesome.