Posts about gay tectors wrten by timalrman
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TAG ARCHIV: GAY TECTORS
* canadian gay detector *
We are all faiar wh the lloquialism “gaydar” which refers to a person’s tuive, and often wildly accurate, abily to asss the sexual orientatn of another person. In the 1960s, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) attempted to e a slightly more scientific, though equally flawed, approach- a mache to tect if a person was gay or not.
This was an attempt to elimate homosexuals om the Canadian ary, police and civil service. Takg the lead om the Uned Stat’ McCarthyism, the Canadian ernment nsired all homosexual public servants to be a threat to natnal secury for var absurd reasons. In orr to al wh the “secury threats” posed by gay people, a special team the RCMP was formed.
THE GAY-DETECTG F MACHE
Sectn A-3’s sole missn was to intify and dismiss om service every homosexual workg for the Canadian ernment. Intified homosexuals were immediately fired or forced to rign. If the subject’s pupils dilated when beg shown erotic photos of people of the same genr, s/he was assumed to be homosexual.
For stance, another tt n by the RCMP clud monorg subjects’ physlogil rpons to specific words such as queer, gay, drag and even bar. As you might expect, once word got out that the F Mache tt was attemptg to terme if you were gay or not, rather than a strs ttg mache as people were ially told, gettg people to take the tt beme nearly impossible. That, along wh numero mechanil failur wh the mache self, soon got fundg for that particular part of the program cut off and the RCMP’s dream of havg a gaydar to screen all Public Employe wh was put on hold, though that didn’t stop them om ntug their work tryg to root out “dangero” homosexuals om the Canadian payroll.