Join the conversation
Log in or create an account to leave a comment
Log In
[Laughter] - What often would happen
in the basement tavern of The Lord Elgin
on Elgin Street, the basement tavern
by that point in time was actually a major place where
men went to meet other men
in the basement tavern of The Lord Elgin
on Elgin Street, the basement tavern
by that point in time was actually a major place where
men went to meet other men
Full Transcript
00:00:01.000 --> 00:00:02.969
[Laughter]
00:00:03.036 --> 00:00:05.271
- What often would happen
in the basement tavern
00:00:05.338 --> 00:00:07.084
of The Lord Elgin
on Elgin Street,
00:00:07.907 --> 00:00:09.842
the basement tavern
by that point in time
00:00:09.909 --> 00:00:14.013
was actually a major place where
men went to meet other men.
Want This Clip in HD?
Upgrade for HD/4K downloads and unlimited access. Upgrade now →
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.