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1976-05-22

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May 22 Ottawa Ottawa police raided the Club Baths of Ottawa (1069 Wellington Street) and arrested twenty-seven men; twenty-two were charged as found-ins, two with gross indecency, and three as being keepers. The police also seized financial records and the Club Baths' membership list, which contained more than 3,000 names; the list was later returned. This was the first raid of its kind in the Ottawa area, and was seen as part of a campaign of police harassment of gay establishments to "clean up" Montréal and nearby cities for the 1976 Summer Olympics. (See also May 24, 1976; May 28, 1976; Summer 1976; August 12, 1976; Autumn 1976; October 21, 1976; January 28, 1977; and November 30, 1977. )

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"Olympic Crackdown," Body Politic, no. 25 (1976), pp. 1, 17.Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile, The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010), pp. 314–17 "Gays Condemn Sauna-club Raid," Ottawa Citizen, 25 May 1976, p. 2 "Five Charged in Club Raid Given Remands for Pleas," Ottawa Citizen, 1 June 1976, p. 3 "Equipment 'Normal' But Club Maybe Not," Sunday Express (Montréal), 23 May 1976 "City Gays Say Raid Was Games Cleanup," Ottawa Journal, 25 May 1976, p. 2

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