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- 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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4, 1981, the Toronto gay muny, like many muni, was somewhat actured, wh many disparate voic and factns offerg opns on how to advance their the next night marked a pivotal moment galvanizg the muny — when police officers armed wh crowbars and sledgehammers raid four cy bathho and arrted more than 250 gay men. 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?
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"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.
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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. 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.
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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.
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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. A gay rights monstratn Toronto, cir 1980s (urty Canadian Lbian and Gay Archiv).