Queer Legends: An Oral History Podcast
1) The U.S. Military's Transgender Purge
On 25 January 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order that launched a new military Purge of America's Transgender servicemen and servicewomen. Trump's Order is based on outdated, b...Show More
2) The LGBT Purge Interrogation Room
In this haunting episode, I explore the chilling discovery of a former Canadian Armed Forces interrogation room used during the LGBT Purge, that's now an ordinary office space. Once a site where gay a...Show More
3) Legacy Of The LGBT Purge and A Queer Mystery - Pt.8
The road to justice for LGBT Purge survivors was not an easy one - even after the Government of Canada’s apology. Seeking justice also meant that Purge survivors had to confront and relive some truly ...Show More
4) We Demand An Apology - Pt.7
Before the Government of Canada’s apology and before the LGBT Purge class-action lawsuit, there was a small group of dedicated Canadians who were determined to get justice. This network of Purge survi...Show More
5) The Ban On Gays In The Military Ends (On Paper) - Pt.6
By the early 1990s the Conservative government of Brian Mulroney knew it could not continue the military’s anti-homosexuality policies. However, his ministers and military kept looking for loopholes t...Show More
6) Towards Equality For Some - Pt.5
The 1980s were a pivotal decade in Canadian politics and history, including key battles for queer liberation and rights. You’ll hear about former MP Svend Robinson’s efforts to get homosexuality into ...Show More
7) We Demand and Lesbians In The Military - Pt.4
Canadian queer resistance emerges in the 1970s and puts a spotlight on the injustices facing gays and lesbians. This caused further police, military and government crackdowns on queers across Canada -...Show More
8) The Fruit Machine and Bedrooms of The Nation - Pt.3
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 orig...Show More
9) How Canada's LGBT Purge Got Started - Pt.2
This is a true-crime episode. Gripped with paranoia about Soviet spies using ‘human weaknesses’ to steal government secrets, Canada and its allies started hunting for and eliminating homosexuals from ...Show More
10) Queers of the First and Second World Wars - Pt.1
Welcome to Season 2 of Queer Legends: The True Story About Canada's LGBT Purge. We begin with amazing new research that has uncovered what life was like for gay and bisexual soldiers during the First ...Show More