Ben Cardin is calling this a “lavender scare”, these same pinkos were supportive of the hard left pro-Communist stooges, claiming the “red scare” was hysteria over no threat or interal subversive influence.
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Connections between gay rights groups and so-called subversive elements were not entirely baseless. The Mattachine Society, one of the earliest gay rights groups in the United States, was founded by Harry Hay, a former member of the Communist Party USA, who resigned when the membership condemned his politics as a threat to the organization he had founded.