What We Know About the Toronto Man Charged Wh Murrg Two Gay Men

Contents:

• 30 YEARS LATER, MONTREAL'S GAY MUNY REFLECTS ON THE MURR OF JOE ROSE
• AS HIV/AIDS RAVAGED MONTREAL THE ’90S, GAY MEN WERE GETTG MURRED—AND TRYG TO FIGHT BACK
• PODST SHEDS LIGHT ON FOTTEN MURRS OF GAY MEN MONTREAL
• BCE MCARTHUR: GAY VILLAGE SERIAL KILLER GETS LIFE SENTENCE
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• GUNSHOTS HEARD MONTREAL GAY VILLAGE, POLICE VTIGATG
• WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE TORONTO MAN CHARGED WH MURRG TWO GAY MEN

30 YEARS LATER, MONTREAL'S GAY MUNY REFLECTS ON THE MURR OF JOE ROSE

When gay men start turng up murred 1990s Montreal, the cy reckons wh both the AIDS crisis and a possible serial killer. Faced wh police difference — spe mountg evince — a group of activists tak matters to their own all available episos & follow the showThe Village Montreal murrs transcripts image (Ben Shannon)In the early 1990s, as AIDS tightens s grip on major ci around the world, the relative safety of Montreal's nightlife be a mag for gay men. PrologueJt hands over the season to Francis at Parc L'Espoir, the memorial to people who died om HIV/AIDS Montreal's gay village.

AS HIV/AIDS RAVAGED MONTREAL THE ’90S, GAY MEN WERE GETTG MURRED—AND TRYG TO FIGHT BACK

Episo 5: Out Wh Them AllFaced wh a adly disease, surround by ath, AIDS activist Roger Leclerc rorts to ntroversial tactics to nont discrimatn and vlence agast gays and Village42:44S3 E5: Out Wh Them AllAccs the transcript for this episo here. What gay activist Michael Hendricks remembers most about the murr of Joe Rose, 30 years ago today, was the horror he felt. "We realized that uld happen to anybody, " Hendricks 1989, Montreal's gay muny was enjoyg new eedom: gay bars were operatg wh relative openns, and homophobia Montreal was ls pronounced than other ci, Hendricks rells.

(CBC)Rose was openly gay — his pk hair a distguishg feature. 30 years after the murr of Joe RoseA tragic event on a cy b 30 years ago spurred gay activism Montreal. "'Not a hateful bone his body'Rose's olr brother, Geofey, remembers Joe as "a lovg person" and ocsnal "pa the ass" who often took him to his world the gay village.

"He was proud of who he was, and he wasn't ashamed of beg gay or beg different.

PODST SHEDS LIGHT ON FOTTEN MURRS OF GAY MEN MONTREAL

The killg ma clear that there was a "horrible backlash" agast homosexualy as a nsequence of the AIDS crisis, Hays said, and that the muny was "not as safe as we thought we were.

BCE MCARTHUR: GAY VILLAGE SERIAL KILLER GETS LIFE SENTENCE

"Preventg vlence beme a key foc of activists, who lled for public heargs to vlence and discrimatn agast gays and lbians. The provcial ernment risted, but the Quebec Human Rights Commissn fally did hold heargs  taken up by the gay muny as gaed power were the Rose stood for, Hendricks said. "Today, Hendricks said, many of the objectiv for which activists fought and that Rose red most about — muny agency the fight agast HIV and AIDS, an end to homophobic vlence, and an anized, nnected muny — are closer to be beg attaed.

Francis Plour: When Jt Lg worked on Season 1 of The Village (which foced on a seri of ld s reopened followg the arrt of serial killer Bce McArthur Toronto), he terviewed Michael Hendricks, a longtime activist who, the 1990s, had succsfully worked wh the Montreal police so they would improve the way they vtigate gay murrs.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

What happened Montreal the early 1990s was tly a set of circumstanc (the peak of the AIDS crisis, a rise vlence agast gays and lbians, homophobic police btaly, etc.

It might sound naive, but I don't thk I'd realized how profound the effect of the AIDS epimic was on the gay muny. For transcripts of this seri, please vis: many ways, we've evolved very posively as a muny sce the 1990s, and yet, there is still so much homophobia and transphobia our society, very much cludg stutns like the police. In s acclaimed first season, CBC vtigative te crime podst The Village dug ep to the disappearance of men om Toronto’s gay village and the serial killer—Bce McArthur—behd their murrs.

GUNSHOTS HEARD MONTREAL GAY VILLAGE, POLICE VTIGATG

I started diggg to , and quickly beme clear to me that there was material not only to discs whether or not there was a serial killer Montreal the early ’90s, but also to discs other topics like the AIDS crisis, homophobia and police btaly Montreal. You remember kd of that stuff as a kid, but you don’t unrstand the subtext around and that there was homophobia attached to . It was tertg to me bee, yeah, I’m gay.

The basis of the seri is still te crime as a way to expose a number of issu related to homophobia. I thk what’s gog to be different this season is that we foc que a b on the impact of the AIDS crisis on the muny terms of fuellg hatred and homophobia.

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE TORONTO MAN CHARGED WH MURRG TWO GAY MEN

We have an episo pletely dited to homophobia wh the Church and the impact of the Church and fuellg homophobia bee there were two murrs Montreal where the victims happen to be prits. It was really tertg bee, on one hand, you had ps who were openly homophobic agast the muny on the street, but on the other hand, you also had tectiv, which was, like, a pletely separate partment, and many of them were takg their job serly. So they cid that the solutn, or one of the solutns, to their problems was to get public heargs om the Human Rights Commissn Quebec on discrimatn and vlence agast gays and lbians.

I thk they were right retrospect, to ask for that, bee allowed them to publicly expose the problems that the muny was facg: the daily vlence, the daily homophobia and the social problems around all that. When you ask about or search for the murrs of gay men Montreal the ‘90s, all leads to the podst “The Village: The Montreal Murrs. LGBT advot enuraged me to listen to the CBC podst hosted by gay French Canadian journalist Francis Plour.