Artifact 3: Misfortune - Name Recognized

This is a section of a Toronto Star news article on the anger felt by the gay community in Toronto following ‘Operation Soap.’ The title of this section clearly lays out an enormous problem faced by all those arrested in bathhouse raids—forced outing. As this article states, at least some names of those arrested were released by the news media. Twenty-nine others, however, were outed by way of a bail hearing, which made their names (and consequently their dates of birth and home addresses) public for all to see. The immediate eviction and awaited job loss mentioned here are only two examples of the impact of forced-outing—how many others lost their families, their friends, their jobs and their homes, we may never know.

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Artifact Citation: Blatchford, Christie. “’Furious’ homosexuals to blitz provincial candidates.” Toronto Star, February 24, 1981. https://login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/login?url=https://www. proquest.com/newspapers/page-a7/docview/1404737788/se-2?accountid=14474.

Caption Bibliography:

1. Blatchford, Christie. “’Furious’ homosexuals to blitz provincial candidates.” Toronto Star, February 24, 1981. https://login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/login?url=https://www. proquest.com/newspapers/page-a7/docview/1404737788/se-2?accountid=14474.
2. The Globe and Mail. “Metro won’t support probe on bathhouse raids.” February 11, 1981. https://login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/historical-newspapers/metro-wont-support-probe-on-bathhouse-raids/docview/1143005278/se-2?accountid=14474.