LGBTQ ‘purged’ from military, public service jobs file class-action lawsuits
OTTAWA — Todd Ross, 47, came out as gay to a stranger.
It was no ordinary stranger, either, but a military interrogator grilling him about his sexual orientation, with Ross strapped to a polygraph machine, seated in a chair facing a two-way mirror, a recording device capturing his confession.
“I had not even come out to myself,” Ross, who became suicidal as a result of the 1990 incident, said Tuesday as he began to cry.
“I knew an injustice was done. I knew it was not right.”