Tom Hooper
Tom Hooper is a historian of the 1981 Toronto bathhouse raids. He works as contract faculty in the history department at York University.
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Canada is releasing a coin commemorating a myth: that homosexuality was decriminalized in 1969
No laws were repealed. The reforms that were passed had no practical effect. And criminal charges for consensual gay sex among adults increased in the decades after 1969, dramatically.
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The gay community has long been over-policed and under-protected. The Bruce McArthur case is the final straw
The community's frustration over the way that police have handled the investigation into alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur might have been the final straw, so to speak, but it's just part of a decades-long struggle for fair treatment from police.
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