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  • Armani and the Birth of Italian Fashion
  • Cyclone
  • Let Us Be
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  • 7 Questions
  • Hetero
  • Tristán and the future
  • Life is Yours
  • Hadestown: The Musical
  • Dad on Arrival
  • Since We've No Place to Go
  • Nena
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  • Song for Eresha (A)
  • Free Fall: Who you are
  • Phoebe
  • Red Light
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  • When the Mind's Free
  • Stronger Together
  • Are You Afraid of the '90s?
  • Liminal
  • Four Girls
  • Possible Days - Trilogy on Tenderness
  • Rita Moreira: chronicles, memories and videotape
  • Me Niego Rotundamente
  • Lo Noy
  • Bombacha
  • Amor Trava
  • Man I Love (The)
  • Loves Company
  • Our Colors Never Fade
  • Mayflies
  • Tracy & Martina: Goin' Out West
  • Test
  • Portrait of the Father at 71
  • What we did in the Shadows

Track Two

Country: Canada, Language: English, 88 mins

  • Director: Harry Sutherland
  • Producer: Gord Keith; Harry Sutherland

CGiii Comment

A fantastic example of how gay history is skewed...and, hi-jacked.

This is about bath-houses...an exclusive domain of gay men...yet, the first person to talk in this film is a lesbian 'spokeperson'...

It also serves as a reminder...of how offensive the word 'queer' is (and will always be)...who 'reclaimed' this word?!? Was feminism not enough?

Lesbians never experienced the same hate and criminality as gay men did/do...they were not called 'queer' in the schoolyards.

The younger generation should watch this - those that identify as 'queer' because they were told to by those who were never called 'queer'....

Angry...you bet.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Documentary on the growth of Toronto's gay community including positive developments as well as the infamous 'Operation Soap' where the Toronto Police raided gay bath houses, and the subsequent protests.

Cast & Characters

John Bart;
Christine Bearchall;
Arnold Bruner;
Gerald Hannon;
Brent Hawkes;
George Hislop;
Susan Huycke as Narrator;
Ken Popert;
John Sewell