Author: Jackie McNeill

On Saturday February 5, 1983, the Gay Community Dance Committee (GCDC) held “Soap: A Remembrance of the 1981 Bath Raids” (Jennex and Eswaran 187). Exactly two years earlier, on February 5, 1981, the Toronto police raided four bathhouses in what was called “Operation Soap.” Over 300 men were arrested in the raids, with 286 charged for…