aGLIFF 2017 REVIEWS: Josh Howard's THE LAVENDER SCARE is a timely documentary that sheds lights on the so-called “Un-American Activities” gestapo against the LGBT community
With a clarion cry of rationalization, the phrase, “The pervert can be blackmailed!” was the passport to oppression used by everybody from the FBI to the Postmaster General’s office to root out, expose, and expel gay people from all sorts of government jobs. Howard introduces the audience to several victims of the gay purge: military men and women, scientists, clerks.