Pride Week sought to explain the LGBT Purge
The Elliot Lake Pride committee hosted a number of events during Pride Week, May 29 to June 4… Read more
Rainbow Veterans of Canada Director Appointed Honorary Colonel 443 (MH)
Rainbow Veterans of Canada Director Appointed Honorary Colonel 443 (MH) was presented with the Canada Pride Citation in a private ceremony… Read more
Borden Monument Honouring LGBT Purge Survivors
Excerpt from The Citizen Borden Newspaper, April 24, 2023. By: Emily Nakeff, Editor Beginning in the 1950s, LGBT members of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and the federal public service were targeted for systematic removal… Read more
The 8th Annual Vancouver Military Dinner 2023
An outpouring of generosity and understanding at the 8th Annual Vancouver Military Dinner 2023. The 2023 event was a tremendous success. We laughed, we learned, and $50,000 was raised for the Rainbow Veterans of Canada, a federally-recognized non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that those affected by the “LGBTQ Purge” are given the recognition, respect, and support they justly deserve for their service to Canada… Read more
A Long History of Persecution
We are pleased to share new research by Sarah Worthman on discrimination faced by 2SLGBTQ+ soldiers during World War One.
Sarah Worthman is a Master’s student from Memorial University in St John’s, Newfoundland. She reached out to the LGTB Fund last year to discuss a research project that she was undertaking to reveal the untold queer history of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War One… Read more
Canada’s Gay Purge
The Agenda with Steve Paikin
From the 1950s to the 1980s, Canada investigated thousands of people in the military and federal public service suspected of being homosexual. Filmmaker Sarah Fodey documents this period of Canadian history in, “The Fruit Machine,” which airs tonight on TVO. Joining her on The Agenda panel are John Ibbitson of the Globe and Mail; Patti Gray, a veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces and survivor of the purge… Read more
Rainbow Table Ep 12 – Rainbow Veterans and Trans Inclusion in the Military
Rainbow Table Episode 12 airing LIVE, Wednesday, March 17 at 12 PM EDT / 1 PM ADT / 9 AM PDT. Special guests Major (Retired) Kathryn Foss, and Chair of the Board of Rainbow Veterans Canada, Todd Ross, discuss Rainbow Veterans and Trans Inclusion in the Military with our host, Deb Pearce! … Read more
Rainbow Veterans Seeking Recognition
The Rainbow Veterans of Canada (RVC) is a new veterans group looking at providing support for those who suffered discrimination in the Canadian Armed Forces because of their sexual orientation… Read more
CFAO (OAFC) 19-20
Beginning in 1967, the Canadian Armed Forces implemented CAF Administrative Order (CFAO 19-20) Homosexuality Sexual Abnormality Investigation… Read more
Michelle Douglas is One of Canada’s Most Powerful People for 2020
Michelle Douglas ACTIVISM Stronger than WE imagined You could argue—rather easily—that there was only one sane, a trustworthy voice… Read more
Armed Forces commanders signal hard line against racism and sexual violence in the ranks
Both the incoming and outgoing commanders of the Royal Canadian Navy today delivered some of their most forceful public condemnations…Read more
Rainbow Veterans Included in Emergency Support Fund Recipients
Today, the Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence announced that $2.8 million…Read more
VAC opens office for women and LGBTQ2 veterans
Women and LGBTQ2 service members continue to represent Canada in uniform, as they have for more than a century, said Minister of Veterans Affairs Lawrence MacAulay…Read more
Today’s letters: Everyone’s life has been touched by our military
It is likely that most Canadians have current family members, ancestors, friends, co-workers or neighbours who have been in battle…Read more
