The official trailer for THE LAVENDER SCARE
In this clip, a government investigator describes how he and his colleagues would interrogate suspected homosexuals.
President Obama, at the signing of a memorandum expanding benefits for partners of gay Federal employees, shakes hands with Dr. Franklin Kameny, who was fired from his government job in 1958 and became the first person to fight back against the Lavender Scare.
A clip from a public service film distributed to schools describing homosexuality as ''a sickness not visible like smallpox, but no less dangerous and contagious.
A clip from a 1960s documentary, reported by Mike Wallace, that vividly reflects society's attitudes about homosexuality during the time of the Lavender Scare.