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More than 10, people lost their jobs as a result of the order. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. The more jaded among us may think it doesn't matter who's president, but on Presidents' Day it's worth remembering that the person in that most powerful office in the land really does affect the lives of ordinary people.

Edgar Hoover, who had been the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for nine years when FDR became president inbecame significantly more powerful under Roosevelt. The order also applied to people who worked for private companies that held government contracts.

Vandenberg died inreportedly by suicide. The U. Civil Service Commission lifted the order inand the Department of Defense, which had used it to deny security clearances to gays and lesbians, gradually ceased its "intensive questioning of gays President Bill Clinton put a kibosh on the denial of security clearances once and for all in ; more about him later.

What presidents do you : Eisenhower's Executive Order , the investigation, interrogation and systematic removal of gay men and lesbians from the federal government became policy," Time Magazine wrote in "Known as the 'Lavender Scare,' the policy was based on the unfounded fear that gay men and lesbians 'posed a threat to national security because they were vulnerable to blackmail

The photo was posted by Twitter account @NormalPresident, which is dedicated to sharing various Presidents and Vice Presidents going about their daily lives during their time in office. Would a straight man do that? John F. Gay Twitter Is Memeing President Eisenhower After A Photo Of Him Posing Went Viral — Here's Why It's Messier Than It Seems "The 'D.' in 'Dwight D.

Eisenhower' stands for Diva.". Here we look at the 11 presidents who have had the most significant impact, for good or ill -- and sometimes unwittingly -- on LGBT Americans. One of them was Clendinen's godfather, Arthur H.

Vandenberg Jr. Vandenberg's later career in academia was ruined by an expose in Confidential magazine, which likely received its information from the FBI, according to Clendinen. Eisenhower was one that pings for me - that picture of him sitting and posing so fabulously.

Edgar was released. There’s a statistical likelihood id imagine that some of the US presidents were probably queer, but were there any you got a vibe from personally, or that had rumors and talk on the surface during and after their lives? Inwith the outbreak of World War II in Europe, the president expanded the FBI's jurisdiction to include all cases of domestic sabotage, espionage and subversion.

Hoover engaged in "a pattern of persecution that would destroy thousands of lives and careers," Dudley Clendinen wrote in a piece for The New York Times. The rationale was that gay people were likely to be blackmailed and therefore posed a threat to national security.

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Also, he had two older brothers (see Fraternal. Gay Twitter couldn't help but roast President Dwight D. Eisenhower for the manner in which he posed in a resurfaced photograph. Franklin D. But Roosevelt's record has a few blemishes, one of which had a direct impact on gay Americans.

Hoover thought many left-leaning Americans posed a threat to the nation, and he thought the same of gay people -- even though there's reason to believe Hoover was gay himself and in a long-term relationship with aide Clyde Tolson.

One of them was Frank Kameny, who became an activist and fought his firing all the way to the Supreme Court, without success.

Hoover continued as FBI director until his death in Dwight D. Eisenhower Inshortly after Arthur Vandenberg resigned at Eisenhower's request, one of the new president's first acts was to issue Executive Orderwhich denied federal government employment to anyone found to engage in "sexual perversion.