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'
- HOW THE COLD WAR 'U MACHE' TRIED TO TERME GAY OM STRAIGHT
CANADA 'POURED THOANDS AND THOANDS' TO 'U MACHE' — A WILDLY UNSUCCSFUL ATTEMPT AT GAYDAR
" 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.
THE F MACHE: WHY EVERY CANADIAN SHOULD LEARN ABOUT THIS UNTRY'S 'GAY PURGE'
"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.
HOW THE COLD WAR 'U MACHE' TRIED TO TERME GAY OM STRAIGHT
OttawaHow the Cold War 'u mache' tried to terme gay om straightA relic of Ottawa's efforts to root out homosexuals the ary and public service durg the Cold War is back the news followg a class-actn lawsu om LGBT dividuals who lost their jobs.