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November 20 Toronto A Toronto police […]
When
1980-11-20
Description
November 20 Toronto A Toronto police officer called a telephone number appearing in a classified ad in the American gay publication The Advocate. The number belonged to an unidentified Toronto man, and after the officer pretended to be gay he was invited over to the man's apartment. Shortly after the police officer arrived at the apartment, the occupant was charged with being the keeper of a common bawdy house (in his own home), being the inmate of a common bawdy house, and permitting the premises to be used as a common bawdy house. This was the second time in two years that the Toronto police had used a classified ad to entrap a gay man and to lay these charges. The Crown later withdrew the charges due to lack of evidence. (See also November 4, 1981.)
