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apr 27, 1953 - Executive Order Banning LGBTQ (Fed Gov. )

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President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an executive order that banned people who were homosexual to work for the federal government because they were a “security risk”

This was significant because this was a big social and political discrimination for the LGBTQs and this was a big struggle for the LGBTQs because this banned them from working for the fed. gov.

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apr 27, 1953
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~ 72 years ago

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