Government documents related to former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s purge of gay and lesbian federal government employees will be released after McDermott Will & Emery attorneys scored a pro bono win.
The Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C., sought documents relating to an executive order, signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953, that allegedly allowed then-FBI director Hoover to purge the government of gay and lesbian employees—an event that has come to be known as the “lavender scare.”
Executive Order 10450 authorized the firing of LGBT federal government employees for what it called “sexual perversion.”
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