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Harold Rice
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Harold Rice
Harold A. Rice
Biography
Harold A. Rice was an Ontario Provincial Court judge. He oversaw the Barracks bathhouse trials, which began on Nov. 29, 1979. During the trial he ruled that gay sex acts were not intrinsically indecent, but that the performance of these acts for others to view put them outside of community standards of tolerance. As a result, he found Barracks employees Andy Fabo and Paul Gaudet guilty, but acquitted the owners on grounds of reasonable doubt. In January 1980 he also oversaw the trials of twelve people who had been arrested in raids of Toronto’s Hot Tub Club and private homes in October 1979.
