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damnedifIknow

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Mon Jun 22, 2015, 09:26 AM Jun 2015

Uniquely Nasty: The U.S. Government's War on Gays



As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to rule on same-sex marriage, Yahoo News presents a new 30-minute documentary, “Uniquely Nasty: The U.S. Government’s War on Gays,” reported and narrated by chief investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff. The film explores a dark and little-known chapter in America’s recent political past, when gays and lesbians were barred from working for the federal government and the FBI, through its“sex deviates” program, secretly collected hundreds of thousands of files on the sex lives of American citizens.

“Uniquely Nasty” includes never-before-seen government memos by legendary FBI director J. Edgar Hoover (read by George Takei) and John Steele, a top lawyer for the U.S. Civil Service Commission (read by Matt Bomer) asserting that gays were “not suitable” for federal employment. “Uniquely Nasty” is divided into three chapters. "

http://news.yahoo.com/uniquely-nasty--the-u-s--governments-war-on-gays-191808993.html
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Uniquely Nasty: The U.S. Government's War on Gays (Original Post) damnedifIknow Jun 2015 OP
Watching this right now davidpdx Jun 2015 #1
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