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All I remember is getting a shot
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The Fruit Machine

All I rememberis getting a shot, and after that it's blurfor two and half months

All I remember
is getting a shot, and after that it's blur
for two and half months

Full Transcript

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- All I remember is getting a shot,
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and after that it's blur for two and half months.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
22
Timestamp in Movie
00:49:34
Uploaded
Jun 23, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
SandBay Entertainment

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Movie Summary

Some softened by age and sadness, others loud and angry, the voices of the survivors of Canada’s public service homosexual purge are now united, and determined. They are torqued by decades of silence, years of being ignored. They demand justice, and they want to be heard. Theirs is a story of betrayal that is both national and deeply personal. Men and women who dedicated their lives to public service, some signing oaths of allegiance and servitude; casualties of a political tapestry woven in the fibers of acute security measures that somehow became normalized.
The first time took maybe 30-some days - The Fruit Machine 00:07
The first time took maybe 30-some days
Five electroshock treatments were given to me. - The Fruit Machine 00:07
Five electroshock treatments were given to me.
Five of them have been documented on the medical file. - The Fruit Machine 00:07
Five of them have been documented on the medical file.
- So, I stayed in psychiatry and days went by - The Fruit Machine 00:26
- So, I stayed in psychiatry and days went by
So, I put my uniform back, sign all the paper, and walked out. - The Fruit Machine 00:06
So, I put my uniform back, sign all the paper, and walked ou...
- I still have the letter saying - The Fruit Machine 00:18
- I still have the letter saying
- 1989 I was released honourably by the military, - The Fruit Machine 00:19
- 1989 I was released honourably by the military,
- The release orderly room was busy and so, - The Fruit Machine 00:09
- The release orderly room was busy and so,
- While I was being investigated, - The Fruit Machine 00:20
- While I was being investigated,
He says "You're being promoted, congratulations!" - The Fruit Machine 00:05
He says "You're being promoted, congratulations!&q...
But picked up the promotion - The Fruit Machine 00:11
But picked up the promotion
- So we get to headquarters - The Fruit Machine 00:23
- So we get to headquarters
So, it felt like, like, - The Fruit Machine 00:06
So, it felt like, like,
Being paraded like this from office to office to do "my out", - The Fruit Machine 00:07
Being paraded like this from office to office to do "my...
So, once it was done, I had to stop at the MP station - The Fruit Machine 00:10
So, once it was done, I had to stop at the MP station
I started crying so much, and I have to give to - The Fruit Machine 00:14
I started crying so much, and I have to give to
And the gate opened and I was a civilian. - The Fruit Machine 00:05
And the gate opened and I was a civilian.
- This for me, that moment in my life, - The Fruit Machine 00:16
- This for me, that moment in my life,
I was so like, the floor opened under your feet, - The Fruit Machine 00:10
I was so like, the floor opened under your feet,
Like in my head and my self-esteem - The Fruit Machine 00:07
Like in my head and my self-esteem