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Canada, The 1960's.
Who would have thought?

“Gaydar”

Who doesn’t love Canada? Well, 1960’s Canada wasn’t quite the squishy utopia it seems to be today.

The Canadian government hired Carleton University professor Frank Robert Wake to create something it maliciously called the “fruit machine,” which they believed could detect and identify gay men. It wasn’t part of some benign effort to understand human sexuality.
It was part of a sick bit of McCarthyism with the stated goal of getting all gay men out of the country’s government. More than 400 people lost their jobs, and 9,000 more were kept on a file of “suspects.”
The device claimed to work by measuring how much a subject’s pupils dilated after being forced to look at same-sex erotic imagery.

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