The Fruit Machine: The Government Machine That Tried to Detect Gay People

Send us a message Welcome back to Let's Be Perfectly Queer Podcast, your go-to LGBTQIA+ Australian podcast for all things queer 🌈 On today's episode we're talking about the Fruit Machine, a Canadian government-backed attempt to identify gay people using science. Yep... you read that right. A machine that was supposed to tell whether someone was gay. We chat about why the Canadian government believed gay people were a security threat and the devastating LGBT Purge that affected thousands of LG...