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A new documentary film airing nationwide on dozens of PBS stations this week shows that 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 documentary, “The Committee.”
The film was produced by students in the Burnett Honors College at the University of Central Florida, and takes a blunt look at the activities of the so-called Johns Committee, a secret Cold War-era group dedicated to expelling gays and lesbians from…
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