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August 5, 14 Toronto; Vancouver In […]
When
1964-08-05
Description
August 5, 14 Toronto; Vancouver In his August 5 column in the Globe and Mail, Michael Hanlon stated that Toronto police were worried about "the growing popularity of clubs for homosexuals in the city" — there were at least four at that time. The police were frustrated because "... behaviour in them is quite proper and no charges can be laid." Hanlon concluded that "What worries the police is not the activities in the clubs... but the fact that they are gathering places for homosexuals and as such offer a chance for homosexuality to spread by introduction." Less than two weeks later, Ormond Turner discussed the "problem" of clubs for homosexuals in Vancouver in his "Around Town" column in the Vancouver Province. An anonymous police officer was quoted as saying that the police had been "'keeping track of them'" and that there had been more prosecutions involving gross indecency in the past six months than in the previous two years. Turner's conclusion was almost identical to Hanlon's: "What worries police is not the activities in the clubs... but the fact they are gathering places and, as such, offer a chance for homosexuality to spread by introduction."
