June 29 Vancouver Police raided the […]

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1973-06-29

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June 29 Vancouver Police raided the Hampton Court Club, a gay discotheque at 1066 Seymour Street, for selling liquor without a licence. They smashed down the front door and photographed patrons, but made no arrests; similar heterosexual establishments were not harassed in this way. This was part of a campaign of police harassment of gays in Vancouver that continued throughout the summer of 1973.

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Hampton Court Club Vancouver

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Vancouver Police Department

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"It's Curtains for Hampton Court!" Your Thing 1 (5 July 1973): 8-9.Stan Persky, "GATE Protests Gay Club Raid," Grape (Vancouver) 2 (18 July-1 August 1973): 4;Ray Gundersen, " 'We're Not Doing This Just Because You're Queer,' " Gay Tide 1 (October 1973): 1, 6;"Gay Bar Raided," Body Politic, no. 9 (1973), p. 6;

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Hampton Court Club

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