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The Fruit Machine

You couldn't be gay. It was the worst thingthat you could be

You couldn't be gay. It was the worst thing
that you could be

Full Transcript

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- You couldn't be gay.
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It was the worst thing that you could be.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
17
Timestamp in Movie
00:01:14
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.
- They straight out would call me - - The Fruit Machine 00:05
- They straight out would call me -
- Our field investigation - The Fruit Machine 00:08
- Our field investigation
- We were interrogated like prisoners of war. - The Fruit Machine 00:04
- We were interrogated like prisoners of war.
You know, we were thrown in the back of a car, - The Fruit Machine 00:07
You know, we were thrown in the back of a car,
- My war was within the military, - The Fruit Machine 00:06
- My war was within the military,
- And I remember telling them in one of the interviews, - The Fruit Machine 00:14
- And I remember telling them in one of the interviews,
- Prior to WWII, there was no security screening - The Fruit Machine 00:15
- Prior to WWII, there was no security screening
- In your opinion sir and in your experience, - The Fruit Machine 00:08
- In your opinion sir and in your experience,
- You know, on Sept 5th 1945 - The Fruit Machine 00:37
- You know, on Sept 5th 1945
And then we find out that there's a communist spy ring - The Fruit Machine 00:27
And then we find out that there's a communist spy ring
And the authorities in the West figured, ok the KGB is going - The Fruit Machine 00:09
And the authorities in the West figured, ok the KGB is going
- Like, someone, you know, is - The Fruit Machine 00:18
- Like, someone, you know, is
- It was the key focus, not just a focus, - The Fruit Machine 00:07
- It was the key focus, not just a focus,
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,