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Contents:

• CANADA’S FIRST GAY BATHHOE RAID: WDSOR, 1964
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• MY NIGHT A GAY BATHHOE
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI

CANADA’S FIRST GAY BATHHOE RAID: WDSOR, 1964

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Febary 2021 marks the fortieth anniversary of one of the largt gay rights protts Canadian history. On Febary 5, 1981, over 150 Toronto police officers raid four lol bathho, known as gatherg plac for members of the gay muny.

In fact, Etna’s Steam Bath on 563 Brant Street Wdsor was the first gay bathhoe to be raid Canada.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

At the time of the raid, the event only seems to have been vered by one publitn, a Toronto magaze tled GAY which wrote about “a cute ltle em of news which seems to forebo events which might happen the future. ”[1] How te this predictn beme for gay men across Canada.

He was the chairperson of the Coaln for Gay Rights Ontar (CGRO) at the time, and happened to be Toronto that night, stayg wh iends who worked at The Body Polic, Toronto’s gay newspaper. Wdsor has a long history of activists the 2SLGBTQIA muny and Monk was one of the early members of the first gay activist anizatn Wdsor, which started 1972. He was part of a group who fought the Wdsor Star when the paper refed to prt an ad for a muny dance 1973, argug that the ad “exploed sex and was bad taste” — the dance was simply tled the “Gay Dance.

Monk helped stgglg queers Wdsor by settg up a phone le, which uld be found by lookg up the word “gay” the whe pag.

MY NIGHT A GAY BATHHOE

While he was unsuccsful, to do so as an openly gay man 1978 was a signifint polil act. Canada’s first gay bath hoe raid did not stop Etna’s Steam Bath. Unr that name beme a staple social space for many gay men Wdsor, Detro and beyond.

Unfortunately, too many 2SLGBTQIA plac Wdsor have been stroyed or altered to prevent gay men om explorg their sexualy. ” Gay, vol. 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.

The years leadg up to the raids were tense for Toronto’s gay muny.

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

The Augt 1977 sexual asslt and murr of shohe boy Emanuel Jaqu by several men a Yonge Street massage parlour provoked sensatnal media verage that emphasized the participatn of gay men. after Jaqu was murred, an article by Gerald Hannon the gay liberatn journal Body Polic, “Men Lovg Boys Lovg. Men, ” add to public tolerance of gay men and rulted a police raid of the publitn’s office.

In the March 1979 edn of the Metropolan Toronto Police Associatn newsletter, staff sergeant Tom Moclair’s say “The Homosexual Fad” portrayed gay men as arrogant, ant viants who reced nocent children to their liftyle. view was found among many officers by law stunt and journalist Arnold Bner while pilg a study for the cy on police relatns wh the gay muny followg the raids.

Bner summed up those views as “stereotyped notns of the homosexual.