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I was subjected
to this military policy of discrimination,
so, as my peers were advancing to the rank of Lieutenant,
then Captain, and so on, I was still a Second Lieutenant,
and imagine, people would say to me "Like,
why aren't you being promoted?" So, it also had this kind of
de facto way of outing you, if for no other reason,
if someone didn't know about your sexual orientation,
if you were just frozen at rank, I mean,
it was kind of a known thing
to this military policy of discrimination,
so, as my peers were advancing to the rank of Lieutenant,
then Captain, and so on, I was still a Second Lieutenant,
and imagine, people would say to me "Like,
why aren't you being promoted?" So, it also had this kind of
de facto way of outing you, if for no other reason,
if someone didn't know about your sexual orientation,
if you were just frozen at rank, I mean,
it was kind of a known thing
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- I was subjected
to this military policy
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of discrimination,
so, as my peers were advancing
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to the rank of Lieutenant,
then Captain, and so on,
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I was still a Second Lieutenant,
and imagine, people would say
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to me "Like,
why aren't you being promoted?"
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So, it also had this kind of
de facto way of outing you,
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if for no other reason,
if someone didn't know
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about your sexual orientation,
if you were just frozen at rank,
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I mean,
it was kind of a known thing.
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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.
