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It was the key focus, not just a focus
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The Fruit Machine

It was the key focus,not just a focus, it was the focus you see

It was the key focus,
not just a focus, it was the focus you see

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- It was the key focus, not just a focus,
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it was the focus you see.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
19
Timestamp in Movie
00:04:29
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 Mounties were, like, extremely right-wing, - The Fruit Machine 00:16
The Mounties were, like, extremely right-wing,
- Societies around the world have discriminated - The Fruit Machine 00:06
- Societies around the world have discriminated
What happened after the second world war was, you had - The Fruit Machine 00:09
What happened after the second world war was, you had
It was pernicious, it was obnoxious, and in some ways, - The Fruit Machine 00:09
It was pernicious, it was obnoxious, and in some ways,
- So, I think you saw in the late 1940s this kind of - The Fruit Machine 00:37
- So, I think you saw in the late 1940s this kind of
- Ralph showed him some pornographic pictures. - The Fruit Machine 00:41
- Ralph showed him some pornographic pictures.
We're not trustworthy, we're not reliable workers, - The Fruit Machine 00:06
We're not trustworthy, we're not reliable workers,
- And at that time, the RCMP - The Fruit Machine 00:06
- And at that time, the RCMP
I had a friend that worked for the RCMP and told me that - The Fruit Machine 00:08
I had a friend that worked for the RCMP and told me that
- That's an indication of what the RCMP also begins - The Fruit Machine 00:08
- That's an indication of what the RCMP also begins
They describe how the previous gay informants - The Fruit Machine 00:08
They describe how the previous gay informants
Now, it's not entirely clear to us whether they gave people - The Fruit Machine 00:09
Now, it's not entirely clear to us whether they gave pe...
Were there any public servants there? Who were they?" - The Fruit Machine 00:05
Were there any public servants there? Who were they?"
- There was a - The Fruit Machine 00:44
- There was a
This was - certainly politicians were aware of it - The Fruit Machine 00:08
This was - certainly politicians were aware of it
I think they were told "Oh this is top secret, - The Fruit Machine 00:16
I think they were told "Oh this is top secret,
- If you wore a pinky ring, - The Fruit Machine 00:12
- If you wore a pinky ring,
- If you go for a beer, you sit on the left, - The Fruit Machine 00:07
- If you go for a beer, you sit on the left,
Like, the way you sit or the way you hold your cigarette, - The Fruit Machine 00:09
Like, the way you sit or the way you hold your cigarette,
- My old sergeant, she was told when she was - The Fruit Machine 00:10
- My old sergeant, she was told when she was