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Joan Cassidy, a retired captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve, recalls the tactics used by investigators to interrogate suspected lesbians. “They said, ‘We have your friend in the next room, she’s already told us you are gay. You give us the names of others and we’ll go easier on you.’” Throughout her career, Capt. Cassidy says she lived in fear she would be discovered to be a lesbian. Tune in Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 9/8c.
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Learn the untold story of how tens of thousands of homosexual federal workers were either fired or denied employment in the 1950s, stirring outrage in the gay community and starting an LGBTQ rights movement with an unlikely hero at the forefront. Tune in Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 9/8c. See more clips and previews at: https://to.pbs.org/2VJVjLH.
