vice squad lieutenant Roy Blick asserted to the Senate without evidence that there were 5,000 homosexual government employees. Starting in 1950, in parallel to McCarthyism, the ' Lavender Scare' resulted in the firing of thousands of government employees and contractors who were believed to be gay or lesbian, on the grounds of a tenuous perceived connection between homosexuality and espionage. 77.4% of these households were male couples. In 2017, 2.9% of all households were same-sex couple households. in 2018, of which 61% were same-sex spouses. Census Bureau reported that there were 6,935 same-sex households in Washington, D.C. There are an estimated 209,000 LGBT people living in the broader Washington Metropolitan Area, making up 4.5% of the population.
4 Organizations and community institutions.
