March 28 Toronto Police Chief Harold […]

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1979-03-28

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March 28 Toronto Police Chief Harold Adamson and Police Association President Mal Connolly issued statements apologizing for homophobic statements made in Staff Sergeant Tom Moclair's article, "The Homosexual Fad," published in the March 1979 issue of the Metropolitan Toronto Police Association's journal News and Views. Moclair referred to gays as "weirdos" and "fags." Other articles in the same issue had denigrated Blacks, Jews, Catholics, and Italians. On April 2, Toronto City Council voted unanimously to condemn the Metropolitan Toronto Police Association for publishing the articles. Later, it was revealed that Moclair had been accused of striking a gay man in front of the St. Charles Tavern during Halloween in 1968. (See also April 5, 1979, and June 13, 1979.)