The Lavender Scare

A courageous few fought back.

From a community under siege, an unlikely hero stepped forward.

In 1957, a Harvard-trained astronomer named Frank Kameny became the first person to fight his dismissal. His attempts to regain his job would help ignite the LGBTQ rights movement, years before the Stonewall Uprising. In illuminating a part of our history that has been overlooked for far too long, The Lavender Scare is a powerful story of one community’s fight for justice. Especially in today’s social and political climate, it’s a story that is more relevant than ever.