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The Fruit Machine

So, I think you sawin the late 1940s this kind of social panic about thereare communists...

So, I think you saw
in the late 1940s this kind of social panic about there
are communists everywhere, there are homosexuals
everywhere, and that feeds into Senator McCarthy's very
high-profile witch-hunt against communists
and against homosexuals who were seen
as virtually synonymous. And we become viewed
as a security threat for the first time
but also as a threat to society, because you
never know who's a homosexual

Full Transcript

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- So, I think you saw in the late 1940s this kind of
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social panic about there are communists everywhere,
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there are homosexuals everywhere, and that feeds
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into Senator McCarthy's very high-profile witch-hunt
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against communists and against homosexuals
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who were seen as virtually synonymous.
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And we become viewed as a security threat
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for the first time but also as a threat to society,
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because you never know who's a homosexual.
Duration
37 seconds
Views
37
Timestamp in Movie
00:05:36
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.
- 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
Apparently us lesbians are very sporty, I don't know. - The Fruit Machine 00:05
Apparently us lesbians are very sporty, I don't know.
- And the other one was don't, - The Fruit Machine 00:09
- And the other one was don't,
Is when you carry a binder don't hold it up over your breasts, - The Fruit Machine 00:08
Is when you carry a binder don't hold it up over your b...
[Laughter] - The Fruit Machine 00:08
[Laughter]
These are practices that people had to engage in, right, - The Fruit Machine 00:12
These are practices that people had to engage in, right,