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August 20–22 Toronto Seven activists […]
When
1979-08-20 – 1979-08-22
Description
August 20–22 Toronto Seven activists (Don Barlow, Clarence Barnes, Harvey Hamburg, Ken Hancock, John Alan Lee, Jim McNeil, and Mark Whitehead) staged a "Gay Sit-in for Justice," held in an eighteenth-floor waiting room at the offices of Ontario Attorney General Roy McMurtry, 18 King Street East. Additional gay supporters unfurled a banner on the street and handed out leaflets to explain the action. The sit-in demonstrators demanded to meet with McMurtry, who had refused to meet with any gay representatives for two months, to discuss ongoing police and judicial harassment of the gay community. Although their demands were not met, the protestors did meet with two of McMurtry's aides, and McMurtry did write to the RTPC's chairperson Rev. Brent Hawkes. On August 31, 1979, Attorney General McMurtry agreed to meet to hear concerns of the gay community that were not related to cases already before the courts.
