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Contents:

• MY NIGHT A GAY BATHHOE
• WHAT'S THE BT GAY BATHHOE TORONTO?
• TORONTO BATHHOE RAIDS: HOW THE ARRTS GALVANIZED THE GAY MUNY
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• TORONTO GAY MAP

MY NIGHT A GAY BATHHOE

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The rponse was universal, " said Dennis Fdlay, print of the Canadian Lbian and Gay Archiv.

"Not jt wh the gay muny and the lbian muny but the straight muny also went, 'What is gog on here?

WHAT'S THE BT GAY BATHHOE TORONTO?

"While his iends and fay knew he was gay, that was not the se for many of the men who were at the bathho at the time. A man is rtraed by police outsi the Ontar Legislature after about 1, 000 gay rights monstrators marched through the downtown area. Fdlay said that the while chang had been slowly g wh regards to gay rights, the raids and subsequent reactn were a transformative example, those who had been volved wh the legal fence team went to the AIDS Commtee of Toronto and began to anize around "fendg ourselv agast this disease and people's prejudic around that disease, " Fdlay said.

"It was our Stonewall, " he said, referrg to the 1969 raids of New York Cy's Stonewall Inn, which was popular among the cy's gay and transgenr muny. Those arrts led to a seri of rts but are also creded for lnchg the gay rights movement the U. 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. 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.

TORONTO BATHHOE RAIDS: HOW THE ARRTS GALVANIZED THE GAY MUNY

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.

man as an unntrollable sexual liberte who ms crim of lt, prostut himself, who is pable of fectg those wh whom he ntact wh by spreadg homosexualy or venereal disease. The bathhoe raids on 5 Febary 1981 proved a turng pot relatns between Toronto police and the cy's gay muny (photo by Frank Lennon, urty Toronto Star). As prottors chanted msag such as “gay rights unt, ” a small group of mostly teenaged unter-prottors yelled back homophobic obsceni and unsuccsfully attempted to block Universy Avenue.

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A gay rights monstratn Toronto, cir 1980s (urty Canadian Lbian and Gay Archiv). Though police officials claimed that the raids were merely a bt that wasn’t tend to timidate the gay muny, public outcry agast police btaly and the vlatn of. The imprsn upon the public nnot fail to be that the police are discrimatg agast homosexuals, knowg that the relatively mor charg which have been laid agast so many people may give them major problems their private liv — hurtg.

them their jobs and fai, exposg them to the abe of those who would ny homosexuals any rights. The Toronto Sun attacked that edorial two days later, accg s petor of “spoutg edorial nonsense that homosexuals are beg picked on.

Sun edor--chief Peter Worthgton stated that “there’s a certa flntg at the moment the homosexual muny, ” and that he believed “a. Over time, the bathhoe raids me to be nsired as Toronto’s equivalent of the 1969 Stonewall rts, which patrons of a New York Cy gay bar lled the Stonewall Inn fought back agast police harassment.

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Though a full quiry to the raids never materialized, municipal studi prepared their aftermath helped to slowly improve the relatnship between police and the gay muny, though stras ntued. Subsequent raids of Toronto bathho, gay and lbian strip clubs and nightclubs ntued, wh raids June 1981, April 1983, Febary 1996 and September 2000.

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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.