CBC Arts
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, May 30, 2018. The film profiles the "
fruit machine
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Fruits are the means by which angiosperms disseminate their seeds. Edible fruits in particular have long propagat ...
", a controversial device used by the Canadian government in the 1950s and 1960s in an attempt to identify
LGBT
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employees and disqualify them from the civil service, and its effects on the people whose lives and careers were disrupted or destroyed by the test.
Figures interviewed in the film include
Michelle Douglas
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,
John Ibbitson
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Career
Ibbitson graduated from the University of Toronto in 1979 with a B.A. in English. After university, ...
Gary Kinsman
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on June 1, 2018, and had selected other film festival screenings before airing as a
TVOntario
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special presentation on September 29.
The film received a
Canadian Screen Award
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