March 10 Toronto Two plainclothes […]
When
1976-03-10
Description
March 10 Toronto Two plainclothes investigators from the RCMP Security Service questioned president Tom Warner at the GATE (Toronto) office about gay-movement demonstration plans for the Summer Olympics to be held in Montréal in July. Warner said that he knew of no plans at present, but added they might take shape in light of ongoing police harassment of gay establishments and groups in Montréal.
All Places
MontrealTorontoAll People
Tom WarnerAll Organizations
Toronto Police ServiceGay Alliance toward Equality GATEDominion Police, North-West Mounted Police, Royal Northwest Mounted Police, Royal Canadian Mounted Police RCMPAll Citations
"RCMP Investigates Gay Movement," Body Politic, no. 24 (1976), p. 7."Police: Flexing the Arm of the Sexist State" (editorial), Gay Rising, March 1976, pp. 2–3T.P. (Terry Phillips), "RCMP Visit GATE," Gay Rising, March 1976, pp. 1–2"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), pp. 313–14
