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:
- CANADA'S T APOLOGIZ FOR PAST 'GAY PURGE' OF THE MILARY
- STATEMENT BY THE MISTER OF NATNAL DEFENCE ON THE LGBT PURGE FUND REPORT
- $100 LN FOR GAY PURGE VICTIMS AS PM APOLOGIZ FOR LGBTQ DISCRIMATN
- 718 VICTIMS OF CANADIAN ERNMENT’S GAY PURGE PENSATED SETTLEMENT
- THE F MACHE: WHY EVERY CANADIAN SHOULD LEARN ABOUT THIS UNTRY'S 'GAY PURGE'
- CHECHNYA’S HORRIFIC ‘GAY PURGE’: A 4-YEAR TIMELE OF ABDUCTN, TORTURE AND MURR
- CANADA TO MEMORIALIZE LGBT VICTIMS OF COLD WAR-ERA 'GAY PURGE'
- CANADA TO MEMORIALIZE LGBT VICTIMS OF COLD WAR-ERA ‘GAY PURGE’
CANADA'S T APOLOGIZ FOR PAST 'GAY PURGE' OF THE MILARY
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. Canada's T Apologiz For Past 'Gay Purge' Of The Milary 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. Conservative Party lear Andrew Scheer offered his own apology yterday to LGBT service members sayg the sult done to them durg the gay purge is impossible to measure.
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.
(Jt Tang/Canadian Prs)The T ernment has earmarked more than $100 ln to pensate members of the ary and other feral agenci whose reers were siled or end due to their sexual orientatn, The Canadian Prs has money will be paid out as part of a class-actn lawsu settlement to employe who were vtigated, sanctned and sometim fired as part of the so-lled gay agreement prciple the urt actn emerged Friday, jt days before the ernment livers a sweepg apology for discrimatn agast members of the LGBTQ muny.
STATEMENT BY THE MISTER OF NATNAL DEFENCE ON THE LGBT PURGE FUND REPORT
Details of the agreement mt still be worked out by the parti and approved by the Feral Court, but 's expected that several thoand people will be eligible for the fancial to formally apologize to LGBT muny for past wrongs'A small victory': LGBTQ Canadians 'purged' om ary and public service awa apologyPrime Mister Jt T will liver the apology — which is expected to surpass what other untri have done to make amends to LGBTQ people — the Hoe of Commons followg qutn perd on apology-related iativ, the ernment is puttg $250, 000 toward muny projects to bat homophobia and provi support for people crisis.
Applitn for expungementIn addn, plans a memoratn 2019 of the 50th anniversary of the feral crimalizatn of homosexual ernment also plans to table legislatn Tuday to expunge the crimal rerds of people nvicted of nsensual sexual activy wh same-sex partners, whether civilian or ary procs will volve makg an applitn for expungement and requts may be submted on behalf of ceased people who were apology and associated efforts to regnize past wrongs will be genuely historic, said Gary Ksman, a soclogy profsor at Lrentian Universy and a leadg scholar on the jtic for many Ksman, a soclogy profsor at Lrentian Universy and a leadg scholar on the jtic for many years, says an apology for the gay purge will be tly historic.
$100 LN FOR GAY PURGE VICTIMS AS PM APOLOGIZ FOR LGBTQ DISCRIMATN
Milary postal clerk fired for beg a lbian awas apology om OttawaThere is no evince of a gay or lbian employee ever givg rmatn to Soviet agents or another foreign power, Ksman said.
Some victims of the feral ernment’s gay purge were so vastated by the experience that even s later they need the help of a therapist to fill out forms to receive fancial pensatn, says the lawyer who led a succsful class actn. A total of 718 people — fewer than Elltt had anticipated — filed the necsary paperwork for pensatn by last month’s adle unr a historic settlement that was falized MORE: Feral move to pensate ary members fired durg gay purge met wh cheers of joyIt clus at least $50 ln and up to $110 ln overall pensatn, wh eligible people each expected to receive between $5, 000 and $175, 000, pendg on the gravy of their s. The settlement was a rnerstone of a sweepg feral apology livered November 2017 for s of discrimatn agast members of the LGBTQ People crimally charged unr gay purge will have rerds stroyed: T.
Unr polici that took root the 1950s and ntued to the early ’90s, feral agenci vtigated, sanctned and sometim fired lbian and gay members of the Canadian Armed Forc, the RCMP and the public service bee they were emed who kept their jobs were moted or overlooked for promotns or had secury clearanc MORE: Canada Pri Catn acknowledg jtic faced by LGBTQ2 public servantsThe mpaign was driven by the notn that the “character weakns” of homosexual employe would make them sceptible to blackmail the tense climate of the Cold War. Elltt had anticipated between 750 and 1, 000 people would step MORE: 2 ad, 40 taed sce December alleged LGBTQ purge ChechnyaHowever, some eligible ndidat, cludg olr people who were not active the gay muny, had not heard about the there was a bigger obstacle. READ MORE: Liberals set asi $100M for those affected by gay purge class actn settlementSome never revered om beg shunned by the untry they’d once taken pri servg, Elltt said.
718 VICTIMS OF CANADIAN ERNMENT’S GAY PURGE PENSATED SETTLEMENT
”The settlement clus lns of dollars for renciliatn and remembrance measur, cludg a natnal monument to be built Ottawa, a Canadian Mm for Human Rights exhibn Wnipeg and classifitn of archival rerds documentg the dark MORE: Apology to gay, lbian Canadians kicked out of public service, ary g by 2019Social gathergs are also beg anized so purge survivors n meet directors of the memoratn fund.
THE F MACHE: WHY EVERY CANADIAN SHOULD LEARN ABOUT THIS UNTRY'S 'GAY PURGE'
Support the velopment of a mm exhibn by the Canadian Mm for Human Rights, based Wnipeg (Please see the LGBT Purge Fund’s statement regardg allegatns of racism & homophobia at the CMHR);.
CHECHNYA’S HORRIFIC ‘GAY PURGE’: A 4-YEAR TIMELE OF ABDUCTN, TORTURE AND MURR
On September 24, 1980, she was purged om the Armed Forc after a lengthy 2-year vtigatn unr the CFAO 19-20 “Sexual Deviatn – Invtigatn, Medil Invtigatn and Disposal for beg a homosexual”. Wayne attaed the rank of Staff-Sergeant and after a succsful and exemplary 18-year reer he was disvered to be gay and 1986 was forced out the RCMP as part of the “LGBT purge”. Elltt won the largt Canadian class actn trial judgement valued at $50 ln an actn brought by a group of gay and lbian Canadians seekg CPP survivor’s pensns agast the feral ernment Hislop v Canada.
As a person wh disabili, a retired member of the CAF who has experienced purge-related events, and her olst son beg a gay man, Lda is a strong ally for the LGBT muni and the LGBT Purge. Begng durg the Cold War, this systematic policy of intifitn and elimatn, referred to as the “LGBT Purge”, ntued even after homosexual acts were officially crimalized Canada on June 27, 1969. As of Augt 2022, the feral ernment adopted the 2SLGBTQI+ acronym, which stands for Two-Spir, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, and addnal sexually and genr-diverse people.
Consensual homosexual acts were illegal until 1969, and the tradnal nuclear fay – nsistg of a hband, wife, and their children – domated the public nscns as the “right way” to live. “Rather than removg the social basis for the threat of blackmail through llg for the repeal of anti-homosexual laws and heterosexist social practic they stead tensify the nstctn of the need for secrecy as the problem which requir the mobilizatn of surveillance and tectn strategi.
CANADA TO MEMORIALIZE LGBT VICTIMS OF COLD WAR-ERA 'GAY PURGE'
Durg the Cold War and until 1992, Canadian secury officials nducted a mpaign to intify and dismiss members of the LGBT (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr) muny workg for the public service and armed forc.
Wake ran to trouble gettg volunteers for the project om both “known homosexuals” and “normals, ” who feared the experiment would erroneoly flag them as LGBT.
In the same year, the Royal Commissn on Secury, also known as the MacKenzie Commissn, released a report remendg that “homosexualy should not always be a bar to employment the public service but should normally preclu clearance to the higher levels of classifitn and certaly preclu postg to sensive posns overseas. While the feral ernment was no longer overtly persecutg LGBT employe, the RCMP ntued to foc attentn on rootg out homosexualy wh s own ranks throughout the 1970s.
CANADA TO MEMORIALIZE LGBT VICTIMS OF COLD WAR-ERA ‘GAY PURGE’
However, RCMP secury servic chief Michael Dare rpond that they had no plans to change their hirg polici, statg that “this particular job mands the abily to be totally secure, ” and “while domtic moods may have changed, the ternatnal flavor of the service mak homosexual agents risky.
[xv] Gary Ksman, “‘Character Weakns’ and ‘F Mach’: Towards an Analysis of the Anti-Homosexual Secury Campaign the Canadian Civil Service”, Labour/Le Travaillr, pg. We look to why all started durg the Cold War, what the fear of the Soviet Unn had to do wh and how the ventn of a homosexualy tt nicknamed “The F Mache” was supposed to aid the RCMP’s vtigatns. "Leah and Falen take a ep dive to why all started durg the Cold War, what the fear of the Soviet Unn had to do wh and how the ventn of a homosexualy tt nicknamed "The F Mache" was supposed to aid the RCMP's vtigatns.
" (Library and Archiv Canada)Key Referenc The Canadian War on Queers by Gary Ksman and Patrizia Gentile The ArQuiv, Canada's LGBTQ2+ The F Mache film by Sarah Foy Igor Gouzenko, Canadian Encyclopedia The Iron Curta film, 1948 Government missned 'F Mache' 1960s, CBC Archiv 'I thk they should be locked up', CBC Archiv, 1959 'Crime of passn': How a gay man beme the last person to be executed B. " 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.