January 23 Montréal The recently […]
When
1976-01-23
Description
January 23 Montréal The recently opened Club Baths of Montreal was raided by Montréal police, and thirty-four men were arrested and charged as being found-ins in a bawdy house. This was seen as part of a campaign of police harassment of Montréal gay establishments to "clean up" Montréal for the 1976 Summer Olympics. (See also May 20, 1976, and August 23, 1976.)
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August 23 Montréal Sixty-eight men […]May 20 Montréal Police raided the […]All Places
Club Baths of MontrealMontrealAll Organizations
Service de police de la Ville de Montreal/Montreal Police ServiceAll Citations
Tom Warner, Never Going Back: A History of Queer Activism in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002), pp. 107–08."The Police and the Press," Body Politic, no. 25 (1976), p. 17"Olympic Crackdown," Body Politic, no. 25 (1976), pp. 1 17Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile, The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010), p. 312Ron Dayman, "Olympics Clean-up Strikes Again," Body Politic, no. 23 (1976), p. 6
