Character Weaknesses" and "Fruit Machines

Towards an Analysis of the Anti-Homosexual Security Campaign in the Canadian Civil Service

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3981920
AutoresGary Kinsman (autor de correspondencia)
Año1995
Volumen35
Páginas133
Fecha de publicación1995-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLabour / Le Travail (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0700-3862 • E-ISSN: 1911-4842
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/25143914
OpenAlexW1606685700
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas17

This investigation interrogates state documents that were part of organizing the anti-homosexual security campaign in the late 1950s and 1960s in the Canadian civil service that led to hundreds of men and women being dismissed and transferred from their jobs. This critical analysis provides an entry point into the textually-mediated social organization of this security campaign. Crucial to this were ideological conceptualizations of 'national security' and 'character weakness' that were used to mandate practices of surveillance, dismissal, and transfer. This security campaign led to the identification of thousands of suspected gay men and lesbians that moved far beyond the civil service; to state-funded research on identifying homosexuals called the 'fruit machine'; to debates within the security regime over how broad-ranging this campaign should be; and to non-cooperation from lesbians and gay men. Resumes Cette recherche examine des documents etatiques faisant partie de l'organisation de la purge anti-homosexuelle de la Fonction publique canadienne de la fin des annees 1950 et du debut des annees I960, qui amena le congediement ou le transfert de centaines d'hommes et de femmes. Cette analyse critique offre un point d'entree dans l'organisation de cette campagne de securite. Des concepts tels que la «securite nationale» et la «faiblesse de caractere» furent cruciaux pour autoriser les pratiques de surveillance, les congediements et les transferts. Cette campagne de securite entraina un processus d'identification de milliers de personnes soupconnees d'etre gay ou lesbiennes qui deborda le cadre de la Fonction publique canadienne; elle provoqua des debats au sein de l'appareil de securite su l'etendue de la campagne et entraina la non-cooperation des lesbiennes et des homme gay

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