A new film, The F Mache, speaks wh the survivors of Canada's four anti-gay wch hunt for which the ernment recently apologized.
Contents:
- CANADA 'POURED THOANDS AND THOANDS' TO 'U MACHE' — A WILDLY UNSUCCSFUL ATTEMPT AT GAYDAR
- THE F MACHE: WHY EVERY CANADIAN SHOULD LEARN ABOUT THIS UNTRY'S 'GAY PURGE'
- ‘GAYDAR’ MACHE: THE ONE TIME CANADA TRMATIZED S CIZENS
- HOW THE COLD WAR 'U MACHE' TRIED TO TERME GAY OM STRAIGHT
- THE F MACHE: NEW FILM DETAILS CANADA’S 40 YEAR ANTI-GAY WCH HUNT – TRAILER
- WHY STANFORD REARCHERS TRIED TO CREATE A ‘GAYDAR’ MACHE
CANADA 'POURED THOANDS AND THOANDS' TO 'U MACHE' — A WILDLY UNSUCCSFUL ATTEMPT AT GAYDAR
The new documentary The F Mache draws s name om a mache veloped to intify gay men (rogatorily known as "us"). The film explor how this mache was ed as a weapon a four- antigay wch hunt Canada.
THE F MACHE: WHY EVERY CANADIAN SHOULD LEARN ABOUT THIS UNTRY'S 'GAY PURGE'
When the ernment poured thoands of dollars to ttg for homosexuals wh the ary durg the Cold War, thoands of public servants and ary members had their privacy vad and their reers ed. He was sharg his visn for the first Canadian gay and lbian retirement home and how was sted to be a failure.
" How uld they be fortable livg a rabow flag-adorned brownstone the heart of Ottawa's gay village? Poverty, homelsns, havg to go back the closet, substance abe, gay aversn therapy, sexual asslts, and for some, suici.
‘GAYDAR’ MACHE: THE ONE TIME CANADA TRMATIZED S CIZENS
" That changed 2002, when she arranged to meet a man named Gee Hartsgrove to discs a potential documentary about his failed attempt to open Canada's first gay and lbian retirement home Ottawa.
Check out more CBC Arts stori on LGBTQ+ ins and activists Well, as Foy would fd out that day, the u mache was created as an ostensibly scientific way to tect homosexuals, so they uld be fired om their ernment jobs or pre-screened before beg offered employment the first place.
This was durg the Cold War, and the prevailg fear was that homosexuals would be at a greater risk of blackmail by Rsian spi.
HOW THE COLD WAR 'U MACHE' TRIED TO TERME GAY OM STRAIGHT
They need to be intified and removed, the thkg went, so they wouldn't reveal the natn's om the set of The F Mache (Sandbay Entertament)This story, along wh the stori of survivors of the "gay purge" of Canada's ary and public service, are now the foc of Foy's new documentary The F "Special Project""It was signed the early 1960s by Frank Robert Wake, a psychology profsor wh Carleton Universy, " Foy explas.
THE F MACHE: NEW FILM DETAILS CANADA’S 40 YEAR ANTI-GAY WCH HUNT – TRAILER
"QueeriGay culture has grown toxic wh unchecked privilege. "Poverty, homelsns, havg to go back the closet, substance abe, gay aversn therapy, sexual asslts, and for some — suici.
"Last year, Prime Mister Jt T livered a sweepg apology the Hoe of Commons to those ught the "gay purge, " and the feral ernment has reached a settlement wh survivors that clus $110 ln pensatn.
WHY STANFORD REARCHERS TRIED TO CREATE A ‘GAYDAR’ MACHE
Homosexualy is a big topic today’s world. An equally big topic is Homophobia. Homosexualy is no longer a taboo Canada, and Gay marriage is legalized.