On Feb. 4, 1981, the Toronto gay muny was somewhat actured, wh many disparate voic and factns offerg opns on how to advance their issu. But the next night — when police raid four bathho — marked a pivotal moment galvanizg the muny.
Contents:
- MY NIGHT A GAY BATHHOE
- TORONTO BATHHOE RAIDS: HOW THE ARRTS GALVANIZED THE GAY MUNY
- TORONTO POLICE RAID GAY BATHHO SUMMARY
- 'THE CANADIAN STONEWALL': TORONTO POLICE 'EXPRS S REGRET' FOR GAY BATHHOE RAIDS
- 30 INFAMO POLICE RAIDS OF GAY BARS AND BATHHO
- WHAT'S THE BT GAY BATHHOE TORONTO?
- TORONTO GAY MAP
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TORONTO BATHHOE RAIDS: HOW THE ARRTS GALVANIZED THE GAY MUNY
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Gay and Bisexual Men's Experienc of Bathhoe Culture and Sex: 'Lookg for Love All the Wrong Plac' on JSTOR. 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.
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TORONTO POLICE RAID GAY BATHHO SUMMARY
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"Not jt wh the gay muny and the lbian muny but the straight muny also went, 'What is gog on here? "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.
'THE CANADIAN STONEWALL': TORONTO POLICE 'EXPRS S REGRET' FOR GAY BATHHOE RAIDS
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5, 1981: Toronto Police Raid Gay Bathho[1450] Hawk, BrentThe men found wh the bathho were subjected to verbal abe, repeated tnts, and hostile search.
While not the first antigay police actn Canada’s history, the massive and btal police raid, and the largt mass arrt Canada sce the October Crisis of 1970 (mass prott agast the Canadian War Measur Act), rallied lbians and gays night followg the raids, a crowd of fifteen hundred angry monstrators Protts and march;Toronto, Canada gathered downtown Toronto and began a march down Yonge Street. Wh loud whistl, chants such as “we shall overe” and “stop the ps, ” and signs readg “Gay Rights Now” and “Fag Power, ” the crowd exprsed s rage toward the police and their actns. Lbian and gay activists were enuraged to ntue their fight.
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Many straight people joed the gay muny to prott the btaly of the police; the police force had often been acced of poor relatns wh many of Toronto’s mory groups. Speakers voiced their outrage about the raids and lled for human rights protectns for gays and lbians.
” Once aga, protters marched to the 52 Divisn of the Toronto Police Service to prott the bathhoe raids and ll for an pennt the months that followed, Toronto’s existg gay and lbian anizatns grew size and strength, and new on formed. Another rally, the Gay Freedom Rally, held on March 6, phed for faster actn.
On March 12, Hawk end his hunger fast when the Toronto Cy Council began an vtigatn to relatns between the police and gays. A study on how to improve relatns between the gay and lbian muny and police was fally fund July.