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The Fruit Machine

Beyond being good militarypersonnel, we were just good, decent peoplewho didn't deserve...

Beyond being good military
personnel, we were just good, decent people
who didn't deserve any of that

Full Transcript

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Beyond being good military personnel, we were just good,
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decent people who didn't deserve any of that.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
17
Timestamp in Movie
01:02:00
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.
I became homeless. - The Fruit Machine 00:11
I became homeless.
And then I found out that the only way that my family - The Fruit Machine 00:07
And then I found out that the only way that my family
marry my old girlfriend. - The Fruit Machine 00:16
marry my old girlfriend.
- Cause I felt ashamed for 38 years. - The Fruit Machine 00:12
- Cause I felt ashamed for 38 years.
But slowly you learn to live with it eh, so. - The Fruit Machine 00:05
But slowly you learn to live with it eh, so.
But your family doesn't know why you aren't in the military - The Fruit Machine 00:07
But your family doesn't know why you aren't in the...
You know, for my life, I told them, that's all I want to do - The Fruit Machine 00:19
You know, for my life, I told them, that's all I want t...
What I have been versus what I should have been. - The Fruit Machine 00:05
What I have been versus what I should have been.
I should have been the first female Chief Warrant Officer - The Fruit Machine 00:08
I should have been the first female Chief Warrant Officer
We all feel that pain at different levels, you know. - The Fruit Machine 00:06
We all feel that pain at different levels, you know.
Some they went through one investigation, - The Fruit Machine 00:12
Some they went through one investigation,
They wanted us. - The Fruit Machine 00:05
They wanted us.
I wanted the SIU investigative reports. - The Fruit Machine 00:05
I wanted the SIU investigative reports.
DND took months to reply to me - The Fruit Machine 00:07
DND took months to reply to me
And I kept saying no, I worked in records management, - The Fruit Machine 00:08
And I kept saying no, I worked in records management,
- It's my impression that - The Fruit Machine 00:09
- It's my impression that
I think that the Department of Justice people - The Fruit Machine 00:10
I think that the Department of Justice people
But I have good reason to believe that they may not - The Fruit Machine 00:11
But I have good reason to believe that they may not
The military does not destroy records. Ever. - The Fruit Machine 00:06
The military does not destroy records. Ever.
- Thousands of people were investigated. - The Fruit Machine 00:05
- Thousands of people were investigated.