Canada is hiding a sordid history of what we can only refer to as state-sponsored homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia. For hundreds of years, a policy of oppressing and, consequently, criminalizing same-sex behavior through “hetero-normalization” has existed. Society, in general, portrayed heterosexual relationships as “normal.” In contrast, same-sex relationships were often suppressed and represented as bestial or abnormal by state-supported and criminal-law churches. Historically, the LGBT community has been the victim of police persecution and discrimination within the Canadian Armed Forces, the RCMP, and the public service. The campaign to identify and get rid of LGBT officials because of their orientation,…