February 20 Toronto More than 2,000 […]
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1981-02-20
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February 20 Toronto More than 2,000 gays and their supporters rallied at Queen's Park to protest the February 5 bath raids and marched to 52 Division police headquarters. Six people were arrested. The protesters demanded that an independent inquiry be held into the raids. Four men carrying the lead banner in the protest were later identified as undercover policemen when photographs of the event, taken by Ted Hebbes of the Toronto Clarion, were examined. (See also March 16, 1981; March 23, 1981; May 22, 1981; and July 29–30, 1981.)
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February 5 Toronto Almost 200 police […]All Places
Queen's Park Ontario Legislature Legislative Assembly of OntarioTorontoAll People
Ted HebbesAll Periodicals
Toronto ClarionAll Citations
Suzanne Warren, "Fuming and Fighting Back" (letter), Body Politic, no. 72 (1981), p. 4."Uncovering the Enemy Within: Toronto's Plainclothes Police Expose a Few Dirty Tricks on a Gay Demonstration," Body Politic, no. 72 (1981), p. 12"Raids Attacked: Bathouses (sic)," Vancouver Sun, weekend four star ed., 21 February 1981, p. A7"Queerbashing: The Pattern since Feb. 20," Action!: A Publication of the Right to Privacy Committee, 1 (April 1981): n.p.Margaret Mironowicz and Denys Horgan, "Supporters of Gay Rights Protest against Police Raids," Globe and Mail, weekend ed., 21 February 1981, p. 15Barb M. Janes, "Fuming and Fighting Back" (letter), Body Politic, no. 72 (1981), p. 5Ted Hebbes, "More Photos Expose Cops' Dirty Tricks," Toronto Clarion, 13 March 1981, p. 5Gerald Hannon, Bill Loos, Elinor Mahoney, Craig Patterson, and Roger Spalding, "'Who Is the Next? Me?,'" Body Politic, no. 72 (1981), pp. 9–11"Gay Rally Cops Caught by Varg Photo," Varsity (Univ. of Toronto), 18 March 1981, p. 7Syd Elkind, "Demo against Police Raids: Angry Crowd Demands Inquiry," Varsity (Univ. of Toronto), 23 February 1981, pp. 3, 10Ken Chaplin, "More Police Dirty Tricks," Gay Niagara News, 2, no. 4 (April–May 1981): 1, 4"2,000 March on Police in Homosexual Protest," Toronto Star, Saturday ed., 21 February 1981, p. A2
