Against Cleanliness

[commonpeople]

The history of the gay movement in Canada is similar to the American one: raids by the police against gay establishments increasingly brought people together to fight back and demand their rights.  Here's a video of a young Margaret Atwood in 1981 speaking to a largely gay audience (I think).  She's got great sense of timing and humour, doesn't she?

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Here's an article on the 1981 bathhouse raids and protests in Toronto.  Includes a full length documentary, embedded from YouTube, that has loads of footage of Canada in the early 80s.

Via Fagburn