November 19 Toronto Toronto City […]

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1981-11-19

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November 19 Toronto Toronto City Council voted to accept two compromise resolutions relating to the Bruner Report, which were to be acted on immediately. The first called on Chief of Police Jack Ackroyd to make a public statement to the police department to clarify that "the gay community is not to be singled out for special attention" and "constitutes a legitimate community within Toronto which is entitled to the same rights as other minority communities and whose individual members are entitled to the same respect, service, and protection as all law-abiding citizens." The motion passed by a vote of seventeen to five. There was also to be a clear policy statement on non-discrimination in hiring and promotion. The second resolution, as modified and proposed by Alderman Gordon Chong, called for "a gay awareness programme to be established and incorporated into a general Community Awareness Programme" which would "sensitize and maintain the sensitivity of members of the Metro Toronto Police Force and its recruits to the various minority groups which make up Metro Toronto." The motion passed twenty to two. The resolutions were opposed by Mayor Art Eggleton (who feared they suggested "special status" for the gay community), and Alderman Tony O'Donohue. (See also December 10–11, 1981.)

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Toronto

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Tony O'Donohue Art Eggleton Gordon Chong Jack Ackroyd

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Toronto Police Service Toronto City Council

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Ross Laver, "Regard Gay Community as Valid, Police Urged," Globe and Mail, metro ed., 20 November 1981, p. 68.Ed Jackson, "City Council Urges Police Chief to Recognize Gays as Legitimate," Body Politic, no. 80 (1982), p. 16

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