The Fruit Machine

The Fruit Machine

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May 01 2018

1h 21m

Documentary

The homosexual witch-hunt of public servants and military personnel in Canada from the 1950s through the early 1990s and its effects on the people whose lives and careers were disrupted or destroyed by it.

Andrew Currie Beckstead

Andrew Currie Beckstead

Paul Fournier

Paul Fournier

Douglas Elliot

Douglas Elliot

Martine Roy

Martine Roy

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