In chapter seven of Van Gosse's Rethinking The New Left, the text focuses on attitudes toward feminists and the LGBTQ+ community during the 1950s in America. Foremost, homosexuality was considered a mental illness and was regularly compared to drug addiction. At the time, this stigma was equal to the actions toward potential Communists. Gosse mentions, "thousands of gays were forced out of government jobs as security risks, and while it was interrogating, surveilling, and photographing suspected Communists and their 'fellow travelers,' the FBI also tracked reputed 'queers'" (74). While the movement for women's equality sprouted many respectable organizations to assist in the campaign and take a stance against sex discrimination, the LGBTQ+