The Canadian war on queers : national security as sexual regulation / Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [523]-545) and index.

Queering national security, the Cold War, and Canadian history : surveillance and resistance -- Queer history and sociology from below : resisting national security -- The Cold War against queers : social and historical contexts -- Spying and interrogation : the social relations of national security -- The "fruit machine" : attempting to detect queers -- Queer resistance and the security response : solidarity versus the RCMP -- The campaign continues in the 1970s : security risks and lesbian purges in the military -- "Gay political activists" and "radical lesbians" : organizing against the national security state -- Sexual policing and national security : sex scandals, Olympic clean-ups, and cross-country organizing -- Continuing exclusion : the formation of CSIS and "hard-core lesbians" -- From exclusion to assimilation : national security, the Charter, and limited inclusion -- From the Canadian war on queers to the War on Terror : resisting the expanding national security state -- Appendix : Index of interviews.

Based on official security documents and interviews with gays, lesbians, civil servants, and high-ranking officials, this book discloses acts of state repression and forms of resistance that raise questions about just whose national security was being protected.