Lavender baiting

Lavender baiting

Lavender baiting is a form of defamation or character assassination involving accusations or insinuations of homosexuality. The term was coined by analogy with red-baiting, the practice of damaging someone's reputation by accusing them of Communist affiliation or sympathies.

ee also

* Lavender scare

Bibliography

* David K. Johnson, "The Lavender Scare", (2006), The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-09193-7


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