June 25 Toronto At a public meeting […]

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1979-06-25

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June 25 Toronto At a public meeting at the 519 Church Street Community Centre, sponsored by ReforMetro, a left-leaning civic party, to discuss continuing police oppression of gays and other minorities, Rev. Brent Hawkes, representing RTPC, called on gays to be prepared to take militant action against police in the streets, and demanded the resignation of Toronto Police Chief Harold Adamson "if he can't get the police force under control." At the meeting, ten resolutions concerning police-minority relations were passed overwhelmingly and were to be presented to Metro Council and the police board. Later, a spontaneous demonstration was held outside 52 Division police headquarters; about eighty gay men marched to protest police harassment, holding hands and shouting slogans such as "Gay Rights, Right Now." (See also June 28, 1979.)

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