why was the cold war called the cold war what are civil liberties

The Lavender Scare shatters the myth that homosexuality has only recently become a national political issue, changing the way we think about both the McCarthy era and the origins of the gay rights movement. But, as Johnson also shows, the purges brought victims together to protest their treatment, helping launch a new civil rights struggle.

The homosexual purges ended promising careers, ruined lives, and pushed many to suicide.

Relying on newly declassified documents, years of research in the records of the National Archives and the FBI, and interviews with former civil servants, Johnson recreates the vibrant gay subculture that flourished in New Deal-era Washington and takes us inside the security interrogation rooms where thousands of Americans were questioned about their sex lives. Charges that the Roosevelt and Truman administrations were havens for homosexuals proved a potent political weapon, sparking a 'Lavender Scare' more vehement and long-lasting than McCarthy’s Red Scare. Johnson here relates the frightening, untold story of how, during the Cold War, homosexuals were considered as dangerous a threat to national security as Communists.

Why was the cold war called the cold war what are civil liberties