Lavender baiting

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Lavender baiting is a form of defamation or character assassination involving accusations or insinuations of homosexuality. The term was coined by analogy with red-baiting, the practice of damaging someone's reputation by accusing them of Communist affiliation or sympathies.

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  • David K. Johnson, The Lavender Scare, (2006), The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-09193-7
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