March 12 Toronto Rev. Brent Hawkes […]

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1981-03-12

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March 12 Toronto Rev. Brent Hawkes of MCC Toronto ended a twenty-five-day protest fast after Toronto City Council voted unanimously to ask Dr. Daniel Hill, the mayor's adviser on community and race relations, to investigate and report publicly on ways to improve relations between gays and Toronto police. (Hill deliberated for two months before finally backing out of the position, claiming that he was too busy.) Hawkes had begun the fast to lobby for an independent inquiry into the February 5 bath raids. Hawkes broke the fast by taking communion from Rev. Troy Perry, founder of the Universal Fellowship of MCC, during a ten-minute service conducted in Nathan Phillips Square. (See also July 13, 1981.)

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