An important and heartbreaking part of Canada's history that not nearly enough Canadians know about. (For those who work with young people, Ken Setterington's book The LGBT Purge and the Fight for Equal Rights in Canada is a good resource!)
Robin Stevenson
In Canada this is known as the Purge, where 2SLGBTQIA+ people were systematically removed from civil service, military, and RCMP from the 1950s through the mid-1990s.
The documentary is heart-breaking:
“The Fruit Machine” is back online! The LGBT Purge Fund is thrilled to partner with SandBay Entertainment to make the documentary freely available for personal viewing. Through the voices of survivors...
Fyi to those unfamiliar with the history: “your sex life makes you too vulnerable to blackmail and so we must ban you from government work” is what we did to queer people in America throughout most of the 20th century
A new op-ed in the Washington Times finally says the quiet part out loud: Fascism demands sexual repression.
"Pornography corrodes the exact social foundation that supports national strength... A society marked by loneliness, weakened families and diminished social trust becomes brittle."
