About the film
The Fruit Machine is a 2018 Canadian documentary film, directed by Sarah Fodey. The film focuses on the systemic discrimination against LGBT employees of Canada's federal public service and members of the military by the Canadian Armed Forces and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police from the 1950s to the 1990s. The film profiles the "fruit machine", a controversial device used by the Canadian government in the 1950s and 1960s in an attempt to identify LGBT 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.
From the film's Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).