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Top 9 queer icons in the 1950s // LGBTQ+ History

Between the late s and early s, an unknown number of LGBT employees, likely in the thousands, were driven out of their jobs. Historian David K. It was used by tabloids like Confidential and people like Senator Everett Dirksen, who was involved in public hearings related to the Senate purge, and it represented a wider societal tendency to mock and fear LGBT people.

The BBC's First Homosexual: How we made 1950s work into a play

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In the Wings

Intrigued, he read on to discover the lost script of one of the BBC's first attempts to examine the lives of gay men - a documentary named The Homosexual Condition, which had been broadcast on the Home Service. It had been recorded on 24 May but was considered so taboo that it had not been broadcast until 25 July As he examined the papers, Marcus found the original script for the documentary, as well as memos from those behind it and letters detailing the reaction from listeners - including one from a gay man who had described it as a calumny.