Link: https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/cia-officers-warn-lavender-scare

Three intelligence veterans say the agency’s dismantling of LGBTQ+ programs threatens national security and reverses decades of hard-won progress.

What a joker , this doesn't even break the top 5 ways he is endangering national security.

Funny to me they assigned lavender to be the gay color or something lol

If Putin wants information, all he has to do is ask.

I got curious so I looked on Wikipedia

The term for this persecution was popularized by David K. Johnson's 2004 book which studied this anti-homosexual campaign, The Lavender Scare. The book drew its title from the term "lavender lads", used repeatedly by Senator Everett Dirksen as a synonym for homosexual males. In 1952, Dirksen said that a Republican victory in the November elections would mean the removal of "the lavender lads" from the State Department.[6][7] The phrase was also used by Confidential magazine, a periodical known for gossiping about the sexuality of politicians and prominent Hollywood stars.[8]