{"id":866959,"date":"2026-08-22T03:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/866959\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T03:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:54:10","slug":"monument-recognizing-lgbtq2s-purge-unveiled-in-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/866959\/","title":{"rendered":"Monument recognizing LGBTQ2S purge unveiled in Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\tIt was considered a dark time for many LGBTQ2S Canadians who served in the military, RCMP and federal public service when the &#8220;purge&#8221; occurred. From the 1950s to 90s, National Defence, the Mounties and the public service weeded out homosexuals, seen as vulnerable to enemies of state. Now &#8211; decades later, a monument to reflect on this period and remind people of this dark chapter has been unveiled in Ottawa. Eric Sorensen reports. \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was considered a dark time for many LGBTQ2S Canadians who served in the military, RCMP and federal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,195066,301170,8359,301171,301172,20739,920,167926],"class_list":["post-866959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-federal-public-service","tag-homosexual-purge","tag-lgbtq","tag-lgbtq-purge","tag-lgbtq2s","tag-ottawa","tag-rcmp","tag-short-clip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}