Like most countries, Canada has its own dark past. One of these was the invention of the “Fruit Machine” – a real-life “Gaydar”. For 40 years, the Fruit Machine would be used as a part of the “Gay Purge” in Canada – an attempt to remove all homosexuals and other “sexual deviants” from the civil service, the military, and the Mounted Police, that would leave deep scars on its LGBTQ+ community.
