SOCB51H3 : National Security as Moral Regulation ARTICLE
Document Summary
National security as moral regulation: making the normal and the deviant. In the security campaigns against gay men and lesbians - kinsman. This chapter focuses on the moral regulation organized through the anti-homosexual national security campaigns in the 1950s and 60s in cold war canada. Moral regulation can be seen as the institutions, discourses, and practices making the normal, and the moral; normalizing only certain ways of living. Making the heterosexuality as the moral, national, safe, and normal sexuality while gay and lesbian sexualities were made into the immoral, risky, and deviant. This marking has a legacy in our historical present against lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals. During the 1950s an 60s, homosexuals lost their jobs in the public service and the military , as the rcmp collected the names of close the 9,000 suspected lesbians and gay men by 1968. Pressuring gay men to inform on other homosexuals , many were followed, photographed and spied upon.
