How were people of different sexual orientation and civil rights leader affected by the red scare?

LGBT people where accused of unfitness to serve. Condemned and bullied out of their jobs, they were systematically targeted for their sexual orientation. The period-considered as targeted and as widespread as the concurrent Red Scare-is now known as the Lavender Scare. Between the late 1940's and early 1960's, an unknown number of LGBT employees, likely in the thousands, were driven out of their jobs. Countless others were interrogated and bullied-all in an attempt to purge State of LGBT people.