Gay bar raids

The bar was a beloved gathering bar, but on the night of October 21 and into the morning of October 22,a police raid on Truxx ignited a defiant uprising, sparking a movement that led to groundbreaking legislative reforms in Quebec. The arrests continued long after the Games wrapped, but the raid at Truxx eclipsed them all.

On that night, as many as fifty armed raid officers stormed into the club. It was the largest mass arrest since the October Crisis of The response by an outraged local community was swift. Catherine the night after the raid, to protest the arrests and continual mistreatment and harassment. We lived lives in silence, invisible to society at large.

The Bill amended the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms gay explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Those legal protections — and the people who fought for it — laid a foundation for equality and respect that communities continue to build upon today.

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