May 20 Montréal Police raided the […]
When
1976-05-20
Description
May 20 Montréal Police raided the Club Baths of Montreal for the second time in four months and arrested twenty-seven men; most were charged with being found-ins in a bawdy house. This was seen as part of a campaign of police harassment of gay establishments to "clean up" Montréal for the 1976 Summer Olympics. (See also August 23, 1976.)
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August 23 Montréal Sixty-eight men […]May 15 Montréal After more than a […]January 23 Montréal The recently […]All Places
Club Baths of MontrealMontrealAll Organizations
Service de police de la Ville de Montreal/Montreal Police ServiceAll Citations
"Olympic Crackdown," Body Politic, no. 25 (1976), pp. 1, 17.Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile, The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010), p. 312David B. Goodstein, "Pre-Olympic Cleanups: 150 Arrested, Montreal Baths Close," The Advocate, no. 193 (30 June 1976), p. 9
