In the shadow of the AIDS crisis, a group of queer activists fights for their rights — and their liv. 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 hands.
Contents:
- BCE MCARTHUR: GAY VILLAGE SERIAL KILLER GETS LIFE SENTENCE
- UNEXPECTED VICTIM MAY HAVE REVEALED CANADA'S 'GAY VILLAGE' SERIAL KILLER
- WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE TORONTO MAN CHARGED WH MURRG TWO GAY MEN
- SERIAL KILLER WHO STALKED AND TERRORIZED TORONTO’S GAY VILLAGE SENTENCED TO LIFE
- SERIAL KILLER DOCERI 'LAST CALL' RECKONS WH NYC'S HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY VLENCE
BCE MCARTHUR: GAY VILLAGE SERIAL KILLER GETS LIFE SENTENCE
For almost a , Bce McArthur ed Toronto's Gay Village as a huntg ground for victims. * montreal gay village serial killer *
McArthur will not be eligible for parole before he is source, Toronto Police/BBCImage ptn, Clockwise om upper left: Selim Esen, Andrew Ksman, Majeed Kayhan, Dean Lisowick, Kishna Kumar Kanagaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi, Skandaraj Navaratnam, Soroh MahmudiMost of his victims had ti to Toronto's Gay Village neighbourhood, as did McArthur were Selim Esen, Andrew Ksman, Majeed Kayhan, Dean Lisowick, Kishna Kumar Kanagaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi, Skandaraj Navaratnam and Soroh Mahmudi. He worked for partment stor as a buyer's assistant his twenti an area which later beme known as a gay village.
He veloped a fetish for rough sex and joed a gay fetish datg webse for men to BDSM. He moved to Toronto and regularly spent time the gay village while enterg to relatnships wh men. He plead guilty to murrg eight men between 2010 and 2017, who had all disappeared whout a trace om Toronto's Gay Village district.
The 67-year-old serial killer had plead guilty to the murrs of eight men om Toronto’s gay village between 2010 and 2017. Another was om a nservative Mlim fay and hid the fact that he was gay om his fay. When he sudnly went missg the day after Toronto's gay pri para, his iends noticed quickly, and so did the police.
UNEXPECTED VICTIM MAY HAVE REVEALED CANADA'S 'GAY VILLAGE' SERIAL KILLER
As officials Canada tried to track down a serial killer who targeted gay men Toronto’s Village, they were thrown off by a post on a nnibalism fantasy fom. * montreal gay village serial killer *
"There's a part of me that says Bce wanted to get ught bee he broke that pattern of preyg on the vulnerable, " said Haran Vijayanathan, a muny activist and the executive director of the Alliance for South Asian AIDS Preventn set up a special task force to look to the disappearanc of men the "Gay Village" area of Toronto shortly after Ksman went missg. 18 and charged wh murrg Ksman and Selim Esen, 44, who were last seen the Gay Village last year. Friends said McArthur employed and had a sexual relatnship wh Navaratnam, who was last seen 2010 leavg Zipperz, a now-closed gay bar.
The three are South Asian or Middle Eastern and equented gay bars Toronto's Gay Village. A relative said Faizi hid that he was gay om his assistant mache operator at a prtg pany, Faizi went missg on Dec.
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE TORONTO MAN CHARGED WH MURRG TWO GAY MEN
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For years, members of Toronto’s gay muny warned that there was a serial killer on the loose, that vulnerable men were gog missg, that the streets were not safe. He plead guilty last a sentencg hearg that end Tuday, Canadians heard how he lured and murred men he met Toronto’s Gay Village, then posed rps stum, keepg pictur of each victim labeled digal learned McArthur was stopped when police raid his home, fdg a man tied to a bed. He was a potential nth victim, the urt heard, and McArthur had a folr a cy that pris self on beg gay-iendly and welg to new Canadians, McArthur sought out men margalized by their sexualy, ethnicy, immigratn stat or poverty.
SERIAL KILLER WHO STALKED AND TERRORIZED TORONTO’S GAY VILLAGE SENTENCED TO LIFE
Some have argued that the police rponse was slowed by homophobia and racism — that the force might have acted more quickly if different men had disappeared. Toronto’s Gay Village is a uple blocks of shops, rtrants and bars the heart of the cy. It was there, the early 1980s, that police raids on bathho spurred Canada’s gay rights movement.
SERIAL KILLER DOCERI 'LAST CALL' RECKONS WH NYC'S HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY VLENCE
Kyle Rae, Toronto’s first openly gay cy uncilor, relled seeg him around. “Would police have taken more and swifter actn if McArthur’s victims had not been gay or people of lour, homels or addicted to dgs? As officials Canada tried to track down a serial killer who targeted gay men Toronto’s Village, they were thrown off by a post on a nnibalism fantasy fom.