Canada's prime mister has formally apologized to thoands of members of the ary who were fired om their jobs s ago durg what has bee known as the "gay purge."
Contents:
- STATEMENT BY THE MISTER OF NATNAL DEFENCE ON THE LGBT PURGE FUND REPORT
- CANADA'S T APOLOGIZ FOR PAST 'GAY PURGE' OF THE MILARY
- $100 LN FOR GAY PURGE VICTIMS AS PM APOLOGIZ FOR LGBTQ DISCRIMATN
- CANADA TO MEMORIALIZE LGBT VICTIMS OF COLD WAR-ERA ‘GAY PURGE’
- COMMEMORATG THE VICTIMS OF CANADA’S ‘GAY PURGE’
STATEMENT BY THE MISTER OF NATNAL DEFENCE ON THE LGBT PURGE FUND REPORT
Lbians, gay men and bisexuals did not adhere to sexual nventns of that time.
CANADA'S T APOLOGIZ FOR PAST 'GAY PURGE' OF THE MILARY
Gay men, lbians and bisexuals were therefore nsired easy targets for Soviet manipulatn. “Exposure, not punishment, is what the normal homosexual — if we n say any homosexual is normal — fears.
That is why homosexuals are found to be a danger if placed posns where important Government secrets may ri. Also 1950, a report entled “Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts Government” was submted to a US Senate submtee. A man workg at Canada’s Communitns Branch, which tercepted rad signals om the Soviet Unn, was found to be gay.
$100 LN FOR GAY PURGE VICTIMS AS PM APOLOGIZ FOR LGBTQ DISCRIMATN
By 1964–65, about 6, 000 LGBTQ employe, predomantly gay men, were on file wh the RCMP. cs-pool of homosexuals and perverts.
fdg unrmed the belief that homosexualy was a “character weakns. veloped a seri of ditors believed to intify gay men. Methods ed by the RCMP to tect LGBTQ civil servants clud photographg men who equented plac where gay men were known to gather, cludg bars.
CANADA TO MEMORIALIZE LGBT VICTIMS OF COLD WAR-ERA ‘GAY PURGE’
Agents were known to try to entrap men parks by posg as gay men. The RCMP also beiend and reced gay men as rmers.
who was gay was ught and then removed om the RCMP after surveillance was set up of his bedroom. ” (F was a monly ed pejorative for gay. The RCMP was unable to rec enough tt subjects who were gay.
COMMEMORATG THE VICTIMS OF CANADA’S ‘GAY PURGE’
There was reluctance among “normal mal” wh the force to volunteer bee they feared beg misintified as gay. It was cid that a scientific means for intifyg homosexualy was out of reach.
In 1973, Prime Mister Pierre T nfirmed that spected homosexualy was one of the factors the ernment nsired before clearg any feral employee to handle classified documents. … was a sry time for anyone who was gay.
This followed s of lbian and gay activism and legal challeng.