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June 5 Toronto The Toronto Sun […]

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1977-06-05

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June 5 Toronto The Toronto Sun published an exposé of an ongoing police morality squad investigation of a gay call-boy service, using a sensational cover headline, in bold type: "Boys for Sale in Gay Sex Ring." The service was run by someone known as "Blue"[Douglas Rearick] through a telephone number, and employed youths aged fourteen to nineteen. Rearick, a thirty-one-year-old American, was not charged in connection with the service, but was later charged with possession of marijuana and placed on three months' probation; Rearick was deported to the United States.

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United States of AmericaToronto

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Douglas Rearick

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Toronto Sun

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Boys for Sale in Gay Sex Ring

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Kevin Scanlon, "Gay-hooker Ring Cases Difficult, Says McMurtry," Toronto Sun, 6 June 1977, p. 8.Jane O'Hara, "Sex for Sale in Dial-a-boy Ring," Toronto Sun, 5 June 1977, p. 12George Hislop, "Toronto Update: Directions to Note," Directions: A Canadian Publication for Gay Men, 1, no. 4 (1977) : 37"'Dial-boy' Sex Ring Probed by Police," Toronto Star, four star ed., 6 June 1977, p. A11John Cosway, "Mystery Mr. Blue in Prison," Toronto Sun, 19 June 1977, p. 3Clarence Barnes, "Call Boys' Boss to Be Deported," Body Politic p10, no. 35 (1977), p. 7