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“Board Overturns Recommendation That [Homosexual] Toronto Police Officer Be

Fired.”  Globe and Mail, June 14, 1989, p. A14.

                             Owen Atkinson.

 

Bociurkiw, Marusia.

“Police: Terrorists.”  Fuse [Toronto] 14(1/2) (1990): 10-11.

                             Expanded title: Natives and queers in Quebec.

 

Burrell, James.

                        “A Few Good Queers: Toronto Police Recruit Homos.”  Xtra! [Toronto],

                        October 9, 2008, p. 10.

 

“Calgary Bathhouse Raid Angers Gays.” Globe and Mail [Metro ed.], December 18,

            2002, p. A11.

 

“Cops Out of the Closet: Metro [Toronto] Constable Brian Aguiar, Who Heads a

Support Group for Gay Police Officers, Says.  They’re Gradually Winning Small

               Battles for Equality.”  Toronto Star, May 4, 1991, p. G1, G3.

 

Desroches, Frederick J.

“Tearoom Trade: A Law Enforcement Problem.”  Canadian Journal of

               Criminology 33(1) (January 1991): 1-21.

 

Doyle, Vincent.

        “Lead Us Not into Temptation: The London, Ontario ‘Kiddie-Porn Ring’ and

        the Construction of a Moral Panic.”  International Journal of Canadian

        Studies, no. 21 (2000): [65]-79.

                 “This essay…begins by tracing the chronology of Project Guardian

                 from its origins as a local investigation of a so-called ‘kiddie-porn ring’ to

                 its eventual expansion into a ‘crackdown’ on various illegal forms of

                 consensual sex between men and male youths above the age of consent.

                 The author investigates how categories like ‘pedophile,’ ‘kiddie porn’ and

                 ‘child victim’ are constructed, reproduced and legitimated in the media in

                 the service of a moral panic around questions of gay sex and knowledge,

                             youth and HIV infection” – abstract, p. [65].

 

Duchaine, Errol, et Lortie, André.

“Les gais et la police: un amour impossible.”  Le Temps fou 29 (juin 1983): 32-35.

                             “Rappel de la descente policière au bar gai, “Le Truxx,” en octobre 1977

                             à Montréal; la prise de conscience qu’elle a fait naître chez les gais” –

                             Repère résumé.

 

“Fantino Discusses Gay Issues: Incoming Police Chief and Council Critic Call for

Conciliation.”  Toronto Star, December 14, 1999, p. B3.

                             Gay Toronto city councillor, Mr. Kyle Rae, and new Toronto police

                             chief, Julian Fantino.

 

Fournier, Michèle, 1976-

                        “Homosexualité, armée et police: état de la question et expériences vécues par les

                        militaires, policiers et policières gais selon leur propre point de vue. ”

                        Ph.D. thesis in criminology, Université de Montréal, 2006.

                        (418 p.)

                                                Ref. : Université de Montréal library catalogue;

AMICUS catalogue record no. 33655761, which gives 2005 date.

 

“Gay Mountie Back on Force after He Was Forced to Quit as Spy.”

Gazette (Montreal), July 20, 1988, p. B1.

 

Hays, Matthew.

“The Cop Factor: What Is the Point of the Federal Government’s Hate Crimes

               Bill If Gays and Cops Can’t Talk?  In Montreal, a Series of Unsolved Murders

               and a History of Police Violence Makes the Question More Pressing Than

               Ever.”  This Magazine 28(6) (February 1995): 26-30   (3088 words).

 

“Here’s a Smelly Smear Campaign.”  Globe and Mail, May 23, 1991, p. A8.

Valpy column concerning civilian Metropolitan Toronto Police commissioner, Laura Rowe.

 

Kinsman, Gary.

“‘Character Weaknesses’ and ‘Fruit Machines’: Towards an Analysis of the

               Anti-Homosexual Security Campaign in the Canadian Civil Service.”

               Labour [Canada] 35 (1995): 133-161.

                             “Examines state documents that were part of organizing the

                             antihomosexual security campaign in the late 1950s and 1960s in the

                             Canadian civil service that led to hundreds of men and women being

                             dismissed and transferred from their jobs…” –abstract from America:

                             History and Life index.

 

Kinsman, Gary.

“Heterosexual Hegemony: Spooks in the Canadian State.”  Canadian Dimension

               28 (May-June 1994): 21-23  (1840 words).

                             “The Canadian government sponsored many anti-gay activities in the

                             1950s and 60s, including the firings of gays in [the] civil service.  The

                             military saw homosexuality as a danger to national security, and

                             investigated ways to screen for homosexuality.” The article points out

                             that not only the RCMP were involved.  A Professor Wake of Carleton

                             University was funded to study U.S. tests for detecting homosexuals

                             and produced a report in 1962 on pupillary response.  – information from

                             Expanded Academic ASAP index.

 

Kinsman, Gary William.

            “Official Discourse as Sexual Regulation: The Social Organization of the Sexual

            Policing of Gay Men.”  Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto, 1989.

            (526 leaves)

 

“Liquor Charges Stayed in Lesbian Bathhouse Case.”  Globe and Mail [Metro ed.],

            February 1, 2002, p. A17 (284 words).

                                    Named persons: Rachel Aitcheson; Jill Hornick.

                                    See also earlier article: “Women Charged in Lesbian-Bathhouse Raid Ask

      For Stay,”  Globe and Mail [Metro ed.], October 23, 2001, p. A18

      (351 words)

 

Maynard, Steven.

“Through a Hole in the Lavatory Wall: Homosexual Subcultures, Police

               Surveillance, and the Dialectics of Discovery, Toronto, 1890-1930.”

               Journal of the History of Sexuality 5(2) (1994): 207-242.

                             “The emergence of a distinct gay culture in Toronto at the beginning

                             of the 20th century was shaped…by the process of urbanization, the

                             status of men as wage earners, and the practices of the Toronto Police

                             Force….Police strategies shifted…to the surveillance of particular men

                             and places….Based on the case files of prosecutions for gross indecency,

                             newspaper articles, and other primary and secondary sources” – abstract

                             from America: History and Life index.

 

McMahon, Kevin.

“Tea for Thirty-Two: The Persecution of Gays in St. Catherines [Ontario].”

               This Magazine 19(2) (June 1985): 26-29.

 

“Meeting of Gays and [new Toronto police chief, Julian] Fantino Is Lukewarm.”

Globe and Mail [Metro ed.], January 27, 2000, p. A20.

 

Mossop, Brian, and Popert, Ken.

“Toronto the Good.”  Canadian Dimension 15(8) – 16(1) (1981): 4-7.

                             Criticism of gay bathhouse raids in Toronto, 1981.

 

“Mounties Staged Massive Hunt for Gay Males in Civil Service: Police Kept Files

on 8,200 during Diefenbaker-Pearson Era.”  Globe and Mail, April 24, 1992,

               p. A1, A2.

 

“New Police Chief Making Waves: Calgary’s Christine Silverberg Bypasses

Politics by Reaching Out to a Gay Community.”  Globe and Mail [Metro ed.],

               November 12, 1997, p. A4.

 

Oliver, Edward M.

“Gays: Masculine Hegemony and the Police Subculture: An Ottawa Case-Study.”

               MA thesis, Carleton University, 1995.

               (164 p.)

                             “Examines police-gay interaction effects from a symbolic interactionist

                             perspective.  Ottawa, Ontario…serves as the research site” – abstract

                             from Canadian Research Index.

 

On Guard: A Critique of “Project Guardian.”

            Written by HALO (Homophile Association of London, Ontario) and CLGRO

            (Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ontario), September 1996.

            (35 p.)

                                    “Project Guardian was led by the London police chief, who at the time

                                    was Julian Fantino.  It supposedly was designed to catch a ‘pedophile

                                    ring’; however, it focussed on gay men.  Many charges were laid,…

                                    few of which held up” – from CLGRO publications web page.

                                    Tom Warner, in Never Going Back (pp. 286-287), says that the

                                    brief “called the investigation a witch hunt designed to portray gay men,

                                    in the public consciousness, as paedophiles….In the end, the alleged

                                    child pornography ring,…that Fantino had cited as a rationale for

                                    establishing Project Guardian, proved not to have existed.” See also

                                    the Globe and Mail article titled “The Kiddie Porn Ring that Wasn’t,”

                                    listed elsewhere in this bibliography.

 

Pepper, J.

“In TO [Toronto]: ‘You’re under Arrest’.”  The Body Politic 132 (Nov. 1986):

               9-10.

                             About public washrooms.

 

“Police Accused of Being Anti-Gay.”  Winnipeg Free Press, July 3, 1991, p. 3.

 

“Police Chief in Gay Parade.”  Globe and Mail [Metro ed.], August 4, 1997, p. A4.

                             Bruce Chambers, Vancouver.

 

“The Politics of Gay-Bashing [on the police force].”  Atlantic Insight 8(10)

              (Oct. 1986): 12.

                             Police; gays; Nova Scotia.

 

“RCMP Drops Automatic Bar on Homosexual Applicants.”  Globe and Mail,

               March 8, 1986, p. A3.

 

“RCMP Hoped ‘Fruit Machine’ Would Identify Homosexuals.”  Globe and Mail,

               April 24, 1992, p. A1.

 

RCMP Policy in Respect of Homosexual Conduct.

            Prepared by R. H. Simmonds, commissioner,  1985.

Ref.: Kinsman, Regulation of Desire, 2nd ed., p. 359, and electronic

documents “What We Got: The Details” and “What We Demanded; What

We Got,” posted at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives web site as of

January 13, 2003.  This item is said to have been prepared in response to a

question, May 1, 1985, by Svend Robinson, and to have been reprinted in

The Body Politic, the Canadian gay liberation newspaper, apparently in

July 1985. Not verified.

 

“RCMP Was Ordered to Identify Gays.”  Globe and Mail, April 25, 1992, p. A5.

 

“RCMP Won’t Hire Homosexuals.”  Globe and Mail, April 13, 1984, p. 8.

 

“Report on Police Raids on Gay Steambaths.”  Toronto: Toronto City Council, 1981.

               (51 leaves).

                             “Prepared for Aldermen David White and Pat Sheppard….Submitted to

                             Toronto City Council for its meeting of Feb. 26, 1981” – Toronto Public

                             Library catalogue notes.

 

Robinson, Daniel J., and Kimmel, David.

“The Queer Career of Homosexual Security Vetting in Cold War Canada.”

               Canadian Historical Review 75(3) (Sept. 1994): 319-345.

                             “The Canadian federal government investigated and fired homosexuals

                             during the 1950s and 1960s…., believed that homosexuals were a

                             security risk because they could be blackmailed for information.  The

                             Royal Canadian Mounted Police formed a separate unit to investigate

                             suspected homosexuals and by the late 1960s had collected 9000 files.

                             At the same time, the government funded a research project aimed at

                             identifying homosexuals scientifically” – summary from Expanded

                             Academic ASAP electronic index.  Extensive footnotes.

 

Shah, Nayan.

                        “Policing Privacy, Migrants, and the Limits of Freedom.”  Social Text 23(3-4)

                        (Fall-Winter 2005): 275-284.

                                                Ref.: CSA Sociological Abstracts, which notes: “Analysis of early-20th-

                                                century sodomy cases from the US & Canada demonstrates the common

                                                practice of arresting & prosecuting male migrant laborers for sexual &

                                                public morals infractions….It is shown how the threat posed…to the

                                                dominant society led to severe restrictions….”

 

Smith, George.

            “Policing the Gay Community: An Inquiry into Textually-mediated Social

             Relations.”  International Journal of Sociology of the Law 16 (1988):

            163-183.

                                    “A study…based on a disclosure document of a police

                                    investigation of illicit sex in a gay bathhouse in Toronto,

                                    Ontario….” – from Sociological Abstracts.

                                    Author at OISE/University of Toronto.

 

Sorfleet, Andrew, and Bearchell, Chris.

            “The Sex Police in a Moral Panic: How the ‘Youth Porn’ Law is Being Used to

            Censor Artists and Persecute Youth Sexuality.”  Parallelogramme 20(1)

            (Summer 1994): 8-21.

 

“[Waterloo Police Lawsuit Court Proceedings].”  Canadian Press Newswire,

            February 13, 2000.

                                    No further details determined.  Ref.:  CBCA electronic index accession no.

                                    4783781.

 

Wilkinson, Sandra.

            Dis-Empowered Populations: Lesbians and Gay Men.  Victoria, B.C.: Policing in

            British Columbia Commission of Inquiry, 1993.

            (19 p.)

                                    Oppal Commission research report.

                             Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 19398412