DiscoverQueer Legends: An Oral History PodcastThe Fruit Machine and Bedrooms of The Nation - Pt.3
The Fruit Machine and Bedrooms of The Nation - Pt.3

The Fruit Machine and Bedrooms of The Nation - Pt.3

Update: 2024-06-07
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The Government of Canada and RCMP Intelligence Service engaged in unethical human research experiments on homosexual Canadians throughout the 1960s. Queer Legends' research sheds new light on the origins and timeline of Canada's so-called "Fruit Machine" project and its clear links to Carleton University; the CIA's MK Ultra program at McGill; and to other similar human research programs on homosexuals that took place in the United States. Meanwhile, changing social attitudes about homosexuality and a terrible Supreme Court of Canada ruling led Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to say "the state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation." Listen now!

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The Fruit Machine and Bedrooms of The Nation - Pt.3

The Fruit Machine and Bedrooms of The Nation - Pt.3

Shawn Dearn