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November Montréal Police arrested […]

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1975-11

Description

November Montréal Police arrested about eighty men in raids on public washrooms in the downtown core as part of the ongoing crackdown on the gay community leading up to the 1976 summer Olympics.

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Montreal

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Service de police de la Ville de Montreal/Montreal Police Service

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"Police Raid Clubs; Seeking Clues to Montreal's Rising Murder Rate?" Montreal Gay Times 1 (December 1975): 5-6 (reprinted.Body Politic, no. 22 (1976),p. 4)."Olympic Crackdown," Body Politic, no, 25 (1976), pp. 1, 17;