"It is tough imagg my father vtigatg gays and lbians, turng them to his superrs who would then dm them out of the ary. His actns ed liv."
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
- MY FATHER, THE GAY PURGE OF THE CANADIAN MILARY, AND ME
- 718 VICTIMS OF CANADIAN ERNMENT’S GAY PURGE PENSATED SETTLEMENT
- COMMEMORATG THE VICTIMS OF CANADA’S ‘GAY PURGE’
- CANADA TO MEMORIALIZE LGBT VICTIMS OF COLD WAR-ERA ‘GAY PURGE’
- $100 LN FOR GAY PURGE VICTIMS AS PM APOLOGIZ FOR LGBTQ DISCRIMATN
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." * canadian military gay purge *
The RCAMC classified gay men as “psychopathic personali, ” along wh “chronic lquents, chronic alholics, and dg addicts. For example, a distctn was ma between a “te homosexual, ” a man who exclively slept wh other men, vers someone who only looked for an “outlet”.
gays or lbians the service and given the “choice” to rign wh an honourable discharge, or face urt-martial and a dishonourable discharge. ” Officials tensified their purge, which now clud lbians, spe a 1969 amendment to feral law that partially crimalized homosexual acts.
STATEMENT BY THE MISTER OF NATNAL DEFENCE ON THE LGBT PURGE FUND REPORT
Regulatns regardg “sndalo nduct by officers, ” and “disgraceful nduct” by all ary personnel ntued to make homosexualy a punishable offence the ary. Also 1950, a report entled “Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts Government” was submted to a US Senate submtee. 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.
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. 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.
MY FATHER, THE GAY PURGE OF THE CANADIAN MILARY, AND ME
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. On May 17 we acknowledge past harms and raise awarens of behavrs that ntribute to homophobia, transphobia and biphobia.
718 VICTIMS OF CANADIAN ERNMENT’S GAY PURGE PENSATED SETTLEMENT
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);. She was re-traed as a Supply Technician late 1978 after losg her secury clearance on then spicn of beg a homosexual.
COMMEMORATG THE VICTIMS OF CANADA’S ‘GAY PURGE’
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. In 1969 Canadians saw the partial and limed crimalizatn of homosexual acts a very limed 'private' realm between two dividuals aged 21 and over.
CANADA TO MEMORIALIZE LGBT VICTIMS OF COLD WAR-ERA ‘GAY PURGE’
Most of the dividuals intified were sgled out due to what was termed as “moral failgs” or “character weakns”, cludg homosexuals.
$100 LN FOR GAY PURGE VICTIMS AS PM APOLOGIZ FOR LGBTQ DISCRIMATN
A profsor at Carleton Universy created a vice that allegedly uld aid ‘scientifilly” ascertag homosexualy, a vice the RCMP dubbed the ”F Mache. Members of the LGBT muny who admted to beg gay or lbian were honourably and sometim dishonourably discharged om the Canadian Armed Forc.
It was not unual for dividuals who had nfsed to beg gay or lbian to be given the choice of beg released om their posts or endurg psychiatric treatment. Individuals who were nfirmed as beg gay or lbian often had not on their service rerd that they were “viants” and “not advantageoly employable”.