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The LGBT Purge Interrogation Room
Season 2 · Episode 9

The LGBT Purge Interrogation Room

Queer Legends: An Oral History Podcast · Shawn Dearn

March 21, 202519m 2s

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Show Notes

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 and lesbian soldiers were questioned and persecuted for their sexuality, this room's dark history has been erased, its walls repainted and repurposed while its secrets lay dormant. Join us as we uncover how this space of institutional violence is being remembered many decades later.

Learn more at https://lgbtpurge.ca/

Cover art photo by Aaron Cohen, Canadian Museum For Human Rights

Create and hosted by Shawn Dearn. Executive Producer: Ian Capstick