Michelle Douglas defeated Canada's ban on gays in the military

Between the 1950s and mid-1990s, the Government of Canada used to hunt down, harass and fire LGBT members of the Canadian Armed Forces, the RCMP and the federal public service.

A young military officer named Michelle Douglas challenged the military and helped bring that shameful policy and the "LGBT Purge" to an end with the help of Canada's first openly gay MP, Svend Robinson.

This is the story.