Anne GeggisFebruary 14, 2023
7min0
The committee operated during 1956-65, targeting communists and homosexuals.
Tag: Johns Committee
Anne GeggisFebruary 14, 2023
Ryan NicolDecember 11, 2020
5min983
The infamous Florida committee, operated from 1956-65, seeking out communists and homosexuals.
Melissa RossJune 21, 2016
‘The Committee’ airs nationwide this week, documents anti-gay discrimination at Florida universities
6min300
A new documentary film airing nationwide on dozens of PBS stations this week shows Florida’s gay community was targeted long before the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. The sordid tale of Florida’s infamous McCarthyesque witch hunt of suspected gay and lesbian students and professors at state universities is told in the new Emmy award-winning […]
Mitch PerryOctober 7, 2015
4min605
Members from the Tampa Bay chapter of Students for a Democratic Society aren’t backing down from their call that USF President Judy Genshaft change the name of C.W. Bill Young Hall. Activists want the late Pinellas County Congressman’s name removed from the building that houses the USF ROTC program over Young’s involvement with the Johns […]