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Summer Toronto At least sixty-two […]

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1975-06 – 1975-08

Description

Summer Toronto At least sixty-two bathers were arrested for being nude in a public place at the gay beach at Hanlan's Point on the Toronto Islands. This was part of an apparent increase in arrests and incidents of harassment directed against the gay community by the Toronto police and morality squad.

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Hanlan's Point, Toronto IslandsToronto

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Toronto Police Service

All Citations

"Sunbathed Nude on Island, 5 Fined," Toronto Star, Saturday ed., 13 September 1975, p. A8."In Brief," GAYtuk 1 (Christmas 1975): 4;Gerald Hannon, "War on Sin Produces Gay Casualties," Body Politic, no. 20 (1975), p. 8;
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