In 1950, Representative Arthur L. Miller, a Nebraska Republican, offered an amendment to a bill requiring background checks for employees of the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA). Miller proposed to bar homosexuals from working with the ECA. Although his amendment was rejected, his views of homosexuality revealed much about postwar American views. Mr. Chairman, I realize … Continue reading Congressman Arthur L. Miller Gives “the Putrid Facts” About Homosexuality” (1950)