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Sexual Orientation And The Canadian Military
Canadian military policy with respect to LGBT sexuality has changed in the course of the 20th century from being intolerant and repressive to accepting and supportive. CFAO 19-20 In May 1967, due to the passing of the ''CF Reorganization Act (C-90)'' the Canadian Forces issued Canadian Forces Administrative Order (CFAO) 19-20, ''Sexual Deviation - Investigation, Medical Investigation and Disposal'', which required members of the military suspected of being homosexual to be investigated and then subsequently released. These investigations carried out by the Special Investigation Unit made use of the Fruit machine (homosexuality test), fruit machine, a device created by Dr. Frank Robert Wake of Carlton University in the 1960s. This device was created with the objective of identifying perceived and actual homosexuals in the Canadian military in order to protect the organization from blackmail by Soviet Union spies. Based on the results of the fruit machine evaluation, members of the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fruit Machine (homosexuality Test)
The "fruit machine" was a device developed in Canada by Frank Robert Wake, a psychology professor with Carleton University in the 1950s that was supposed to be able to identify gay men (derogatorily referred to as " fruits"). The subjects were made to view pornography; the device then measured the diameter of the pupils of the eyes (pupillary response test), perspiration, and pulse for a supposed erotic response. The machine was employed in Canada in the 1950s and 1960s during a campaign to eliminate all gay men from the civil service, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and the military. A substantial number of workers did lose their jobs. Although funding for the project was cut off in the late 1960s, the investigations continued, and the RCMP collected files on 9,000 people who had been investigated. The machine used a chair similar to that used by dentists. It had a pulley with a camera going towards the pupils, with a black box located in front of it that displaye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |