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. 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.
By 1964–65, about 6, 000 LGBTQ employe, predomantly gay men, were on file wh the RCMP. cs-pool of homosexuals and perverts.
CANADA'S T APOLOGIZ FOR PAST 'GAY PURGE' OF THE MILARY
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.
$100 LN FOR GAY PURGE VICTIMS AS PM APOLOGIZ FOR LGBTQ DISCRIMATN
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. There was reluctance among “normal mal” wh the force to volunteer bee they feared beg misintified as gay.
CANADA TO MEMORIALIZE LGBT VICTIMS OF COLD WAR-ERA ‘GAY PURGE’
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. agast gays and lbians.
COMMEMORATG THE VICTIMS OF CANADA’S ‘GAY PURGE’
Today marks the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, a day created to reflect on the vlence and discrimatn experienced by LGBTQ2 muni, and a remr to be liberate our actns to end this form of discrimatn. Durg this perd known as the “LGBT Purge”, LGBTQ2 members experienced abive and vlent actns that clud intifyg, vtigatg, sanctng, and some s, dischargg lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr members of the Canadian Armed Forc (CAF), the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the Feral Public Service. On May 17 we acknowledge past harms and raise awarens of behavrs that ntribute to homophobia, transphobia and biphobia.
The RCAMC classified gay men as “psychopathic personali, ” along wh “chronic lquents, chronic alholics, and dg addicts. The medil rps also nsired gay men to lack “tthfulns, cency, rponsibily, and nsiratn. The ary also ed the Naval Disciple Act and the Army and Air Force Act to target gay men already servg the forc.
At the time, homosexual offenc did not apply to.