On Febary 5, 1981, the Toronto police iated "Operatn Soap" – the name for btal police raids on several of Toronto’s gay bathho. In the largt mass arrt sce the October Crisis, 286 men were arrted and charged as found-s, and twenty men are charged as keepers of bawdy ho. In subsequent trials, all…
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* operation soap/gay bathhouse raids *
The raids marked a turng pot for Toronto’s gay muny, as the protts that followed dited they would no longer endure rogatory treatment om the police, media and the public.