Cherry Grive

  • Safe/Haven: Gay Life in 1950s Cherry Grove

    Safe/Haven: Gay Life in 1950s Cherry Grove

      Thanks to Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s ‘Lavender Scare’ culture, the 1950s’ became one of the most homophobic times in American history.   McCarthy  and his people created a world in which gay people were persecuted and ostracized both at work and at home.  After President Eisenhower’ issued an Executive ORder “sexual perversion”  it became grounds for the investigation…