''The Fruit Machine'' is a 2018 Canadian documentary film, directed by Sarah Fodey.Peter Knegt "The Fruit Machine: Why every Canadian should learn about this country's 'gay purge'" CBC Arts, May 30, 2018. The film profiles the " fruit machine", a controversial device used by the Canadian government in the 1950s and 1960s in an attempt to identify LGBT employees and disqualify them from the civil service, and its effects on the people whose lives and careers were disrupted or destroyed by the test.
Figures interviewed in the film include
Michelle Douglas
Michelle D. Douglas (born December 30, 1963) is a Canadian human rights activist who launched a landmark legal challenge in the Federal Court of Canada against the military's discriminatory policies against LGBTQ+ service members.'' The Current'', ...
John Sawatsky
Ferdinand John Sawatsky (born 1948) is a Canadian author, journalist and interviewer.
Early career
Born in Winkler, Manitoba in 1948, he graduated from Mennonite Educational Institute in Abbotsford and attended Simon Fraser University in the late ...