June 12 Toronto In the trial of the […]

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June 12 Toronto In the trial of the Barracks defendants, Provincial Court Judge Harold Rice ruled that buggery, fellatio, and other gay sex acts are not in themselves indecent, but that when such acts are performed so that others may see them they are not within the community standards of tolerance. Rice found Barracks employees Andy Fabo and Paul Gaudet guilty of being keepers of a common bawdy house, because they worked on the premises and would have known what was going on there. To the surprise of many, the owners of the Barracks (George Hislop, Jerry Levy, and Rick Stenhouse) were acquitted on grounds of reasonable doubt of their guilt. On the night of the verdict, RTPC organized a demonstration of 2,000 people at the corner of Yonge and Wellesley streets to protest the verdict, and to express solidarity for the men arrested in the Pisces Spa raid in Edmonton. (See also June 23, 1981, and October 15, 1981.)

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