My night a gay bathhoe | Toronto Sun

Contents:

• MY NIGHT A GAY BATHHOE
• WHAT'S THE BT GAY BATHHOE TORONTO?
• CANADA’S FIRST GAY BATHHOE RAID: WDSOR, 1964
• TORONTO GAY MAP
• GAY BATHHO NEAR ME

MY NIGHT A GAY BATHHOE

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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.

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.

WHAT'S THE BT GAY BATHHOE TORONTO?

”[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. While he was unsuccsful, to do so as an openly gay man 1978 was a signifint polil act.

CANADA’S FIRST GAY BATHHOE RAID: WDSOR, 1964

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.

TORONTO GAY MAP

In a liberate attempt to eradite one of the cy’s sole bastns of queerns, two hundred ps stormed several of the cy’s gay bathho, bashg walls and mass arrtg the people si. Some men clung to each other fear as police hurled homophobic sults and vlent threats their way.

Police battered down doors and placed men handcuffs discrimately, huiatg and gradg everyone their wake—many of whom were still firmly the closet and tryg to survive the opprsively homophobic social climate of 1981. What followed was the emergence of the morn gay rights movement Canada.

In 1969, the Canadian ernment “crimalized” homosexualy. Over the years, the Government of Canada has been que self-ngratulatory over this move, missng a special 2019 to celebrate 50 years of gay rights (the picted two overlappg fac wh the word “equaly” scrawled English and French).

GAY BATHHO NEAR ME

He says the crimalizatn of homosexualy is directly lked to the many -ordated raids across the untry that followed 1969. Homophobia ran rampant, and neher the Ontar Human Rights Co nor the Canadian Human Rights Act clud sexual orientatn or genr inty as protected grounds—meang that was legal to discrimate agast queer and trans folks merely for beg queer or trans. A year later, the Body Polic, a radil gay newspaper and a precsor of Xtra, was found.

After 28 were arrted at Toronto bathhoe The Barracks (also 1978), a few gay activists, cludg former polician-turned-bathhoe owner Peter Maloney and bathhoe owner Gee Hislop, cid to take actn. They -ordated a fund for the legal sts of those arrted at The Barracks and held a prs nference nmng all the raids, cludg those at The Barracks and the Body Polic, and mandg an end to anti-gay police activy.