Screening: UNIQUELY NASTY: THE U.S. GOVERNMENT’S WAR ON GAYS, Michael Isikoff (2015)
Saturday, November 21st, 2015
2:00 p.m. - Warner Bros. Theater
A Yahoo News documentary, reported and narrated by Michael Isikoff, explores a dark and little-known chapter of America’s recent political past when gays and lesbians were barred from employment in 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.
Speakers
Moderator: Harry Rubenstein, Curator of Political History, National Museum of American History
Charles Francis, President, Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.
Michael Isikoff, Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
Lisa Linsky, Partner, McDemott, Will and Emery
