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I came out during a lie detector test

When Todd Ross was in the Canadian military, he came out as a gay man after he was forced to take a lie detector test.

Todd Ross came out as a gay man after being forced to take a lie detector test. He was in the Canadian military, and the confession - which cost him his career - was during the country's ‘LGBT purge.’ He tells his story to Emily Webb. (Image: Todd Ross on HMCS Saskatchewan in 1989. Photo courtesy of Todd Ross.)

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