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December 3 Edmonton Rick Holowaty […]

When

1976-12-03

Description

December 3 Edmonton Rick Holowaty, twenty-one, and Dean Solomany, twenty, were charged with gross indecency after being arrested for kissing in a parked car in Queen Elizabeth Park. GATE (Edmonton) established a Holowaty/Solomany Defence Fund to fight the charges, which carried a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

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Queen Elizabeth ParkEdmonton

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Dean SolomanyRick Holowaty

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Gay Alliance toward Equality GATE Edmonton

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Rosemary Ray, "Men Arrested for Kissing," Body Politic, no. 31 (1977), pp. 7–8.