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CIUT-FM - Operation Soap - The Toronto BATHHOUSE RAIDS Of 1981 (Mark Tara & Roger Murphy)

Rainbow Country is a little gay radio show that originates from CIUT-FM in Toronto & is now heard on 12 outlets across Canada, from Coast to Coast to Coast.

Openly gay LGBT Content Creator Mark Tara is a multi-racial [West Indian, Black & Irish] "Androgynous" individual who creates his LGBT content like Rainbow Country to help give a national voice to the QUEER community & beyond.

On episode 359 of Rainbow Country

Operation Soap

A raid by the Metropolitan Toronto Police against 4 gay bathhouses in Toronto, Ontario, which took place on February 5, 1981. Nearly 300 hundred men were arrested, the largest mass arrest in Canada since the 1970 October crisis.

Activist, Historian & Author Tim McCaskell recounts his FIRST HAND experience of that historic night.

 

Check out the award-winning submission:

Operation Soap - The Toronto BATHHOUSE RAIDS Of 1981