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. 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.
THE F MACHE: WHY EVERY CANADIAN SHOULD LEARN ABOUT THIS UNTRY'S 'GAY PURGE'
" 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. 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. "QueeriGay culture has grown toxic wh unchecked privilege.
‘GAYDAR’ MACHE: THE ONE TIME CANADA TRMATIZED S CIZENS
"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. 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. As the nspiracy theory go, not only were the Gays and Lbians margalized, but the ernment also built a ‘Gaydar’ mache to filter out the sexually ‘abnormal’.
Cold War and Homophobia. In the 1960s, the Canadian ernment went on a wildly homophobic and btal journey which lead to stroyg many liv. The aim was to ee the Canadian ary, RCMP, and the ary om homosexuals.
HOW THE COLD WAR 'U MACHE' TRIED TO TERME GAY OM STRAIGHT
The Canadian ernment’s Secury Panel veloped tts that were supposed to tect homosexualy a tt subject. The spected official was lled to a Secury official’s office and was notified that some evince suggtg their homosexually was found.
THE F MACHE: NEW FILM DETAILS CANADA’S 40 YEAR ANTI-GAY WCH HUNT – TRAILER
Vanuver Sun journalist John Sawatsky remarks that while the RCMP Secury Service and Prime Mister John Diefenbaker might not have known the exact nature of the tts, they were culpable as they accepted the Panel’s view that homosexuals should be removed om their posns the Public Office.
WHY STANFORD REARCHERS TRIED TO CREATE A ‘GAYDAR’ MACHE
The pornographic imag were stereotypil perceptns of the official who thought gay men would like half-naked burly men. He was sent to the Uned Stat of Ameri to study their homosexualy tectn measur. The ia was that if their pupils dilated while watchg the naked (or almost naked) image of the same sex, they were homosexual and had to be removed as they were a threat to natnal secury.
Once an official was nsired gay, they were threatened by RCMP officials to give up the nam of other gays and lbians they knew.
Moreover, the tt did not take to acunt bisexual subjects which posed further dilemmas for their homophobic tentns to e to un. It may have a history of homophobia, but all should learn how to improve upon their mistak as Canada did.