March 8 Toronto More than 400 women […]
When
1978-03-08
Description
March 8 Toronto More than 400 women and children participated in International Women's Day activities centred at the 519 Church Street Community Centre, which included a "feast," a costume parade, and an evening concert at Convocation Hall featuring Rita MacNeil and Beverly Glenn-Copeland The festivities were monitored by undercover RCMP officers.
All Places
519 Community CentreTorontoAll People
Beverly Glenn-CopelandRita MacNeilAll Organizations
Dominion Police, North-West Mounted Police, Royal Northwest Mounted Police, Royal Canadian Mounted Police RCMPAll Citations
Lily Wood, Untitled article, Body Politic, no. 42 (1978), p. 22.Lily Wood, "Feasts, March to Mark International Women's Day," Body Politic, no. 41 (1978), p. 4Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile, The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010), p. 332Untitled notice, Lesbian Organization of Toronto (LOOT) Newsletter, March 1978, p. (1)
