Skip to content
Xtra Magazine
Xtra Magazine

Need A Suggestion? We got You...

  • Addiction
  • ·
  • Arts
  • ·
  • Asexuality
  • ·
  • Bisexuality
  • ·
  • Blood Ban
  • ·
  • Coming Out
  • ·
  • Conversion therapy
  • ·
  • Cruising
  • ·
  • Disability
  • ·
  • Discrimination
  • ·
  • Education
  • ·
  • Faith & Spirituality
  • ·
  • Fetish & Kink
  • ·
  • Gender identity
  • ·
  • History
  • ·
  • HIV/AIDS
  • ·
  • Human Rights
  • ·
  • Indigenous
  • ·
  • Marriage Equality
  • ·
  • Parenting
  • ·
  • Policing
  • ·
  • Pride
  • ·
  • Race issues
  • ·
  • Sex education
  • ·
  • Social justice
  • ·
  • Trans
  • ·
  • Two-Spirit
  • ·
  • Youth
  • Power
    • Activism
    • Identity
    • Politics
    • Dispatches
    • Protest and Pleasure Series
  • Culture
    • Drag Race
    • Books
    • Music
    • Monthly Tune-Up
    • Playlist Q
    • TV & Film
    • Queer Culture Catchup
    • Queer View Mirror
  • Love & Sex
    • Dating
    • Relationships
    • Ask Kai
    • Love Like Mine Essays
  • Health
    • Sexual Health
    • Mental Health
    • Trans Health
    • Reproductive Health
    • Ask an Expert
  • Video
    • After the Sashay
    • Ask Kai: Quickies
    • Inspired
    • Lucky Stars
    • My Queer Kitchen
    • Speed Date
    • Queer Artists in a Pandemic

Xtra is an online magazine and community platform covering LGBTQ2S+ culture, politics and health. We aim to break boundaries, think outside of binaries and build bridges within our communities and beyond.

Get free Xtra newsletters

Xtra is being blocked on Facebook and Instagram for Canadians as part of Meta’s response to Bill C18. Stay connected, and tell a friend.

Subscribe Now
  • Our principles
  • Inside Xtra
  • The Latest
  • Podcasts
Follow Us:
facebook
twitter
youtube
instagram
tiktok
reddit
RSS

Displaying all articles tagged:

Bathhouse raids

Twenty years after gay bathhouse raid, Calgary police promise reconciliation
Power

Twenty years after gay bathhouse raid, Calgary police promise reconciliation

Many LGBTQ2S+ advocates believe there is still a lot of work to do beyond the latest efforts of reconciliation 

By Diamond Yao
What we can learn from ‘Canada’s Stonewall’ more than 40 years later
Activism

What we can learn from ‘Canada’s Stonewall’ more than 40 years later

On the anniversary of the Toronto bathhouse raids, we reflect on the lasting impact the protests had on the LGBTQ2S+ community

By KC Hoard
Bathhouses outlasted the AIDS epidemic, but will they survive COVID-19?
Power

Bathhouses outlasted the AIDS epidemic, but will they survive COVID-19?

These crucial sites for sex, community, education and protest are at risk of disappearing forever

By Paul Gallant
Toronto’s bathhouse raids proved the growing need for community organizing
Still Fighting: LGBTQ2 Rights at 50

Toronto’s bathhouse raids proved the growing need for community organizing

Activist Tim McCaskell on how reaction to the raids informed the future of gay liberation

By Tim McCaskell
Gerald Hannon remembers the Toronto bathhouse riots
Still Fighting: LGBTQ2 Rights at 50

Gerald Hannon remembers the Toronto bathhouse riots

A city galvanized, our communities remade

By Gerald Hannon
Lessons for today’s activists taken from queer history

Lessons for today’s activists taken from queer history

A look back at battles fought and how they can be applied to 2017

Created for Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives
Advertisement

Advocacy group wants coin, stamp, to celebrate 50 years of gay decriminalization
Power

Advocacy group wants coin, stamp, to celebrate 50 years of gay decriminalization

Canadian government curtailed buggery and gross indecency charges in 1969, though arrests continued

By Dylan C Robertson
Why Project Marie is about making straight men comfortable
Opinion

Why Project Marie is about making straight men comfortable

Toronto police fail to understand why both queers and women need safe public space

By Katie Sly
Is the queer community ready to defend public sex?
Opinion

Is the queer community ready to defend public sex?

Identity, community, and privacy arguments may not be sufficient for Project Marie

By Steven Maynard
Why Project Marie was a witch hunt on gay men
Opinion

Why Project Marie was a witch hunt on gay men

Shame tactics might try to vilify gay sex, but it won’t stop cruising

By Mike Miksche
Protesters, residents and police discuss park sex crackdown at protest
Power

Protesters, residents and police discuss park sex crackdown at protest

Members of the LGBT community attend Walk the Beat event demanding accountability for Project Marie

By Arshy Mann
Federal NDP denounces Etobicoke park crackdown
Power

Federal NDP denounces Etobicoke park crackdown

‘Here we are, 30 years later still doing this kind of stuff,’ says Randall Garrison

By Arshy Mann
Advertisement

Lawyer vows to help men charged in Etobicoke park sting
Power

Lawyer vows to help men charged in Etobicoke park sting

‘It certainly has the whiff of homophobia,’ says Marcus McCann on Toronto police operation

By Arshy Mann
Project Marie is shocking, but at least as gay men we know how to respond
Opinion

Project Marie is shocking, but at least as gay men we know how to respond

The undercover police operation in Etobicoke’s Marie Curtis Park is reminiscent of the bathhouse raids

By Marcus McCann
Liberal government may not compensate men convicted under anti-gay laws, FOI suggests
Power

Liberal government may not compensate men convicted under anti-gay laws, FOI suggests

By Dylan C Robertson
Why some LGBT activists want more from Toronto police
Power

Why some LGBT activists want more from Toronto police

‘If they did a bad thing then why aren’t the perpetrators called to account?’

By Nathaniel Christopher
Why one gay activist isn’t happy with Toronto police’s apology
Opinion

Why one gay activist isn’t happy with Toronto police’s apology

We deserve more than a cynical PR stunt, says Tim McCaskell

By Tim McCaskell
Toronto police ‘regrets’ bathhouse raids
Video

Toronto police ‘regrets’ bathhouse raids

Chief Mark Saunders offers apology during Pride reception

By Xtra Editor
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
Advertisement
Xtra Magazine
  • About us
    • Our principles
    • Inside Xtra
    • Editorial Standards
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms of Use
  • Contact Us
    • Meet the Team
    • How to pitch Xtra
    • Advertise
    • Sponsorship
  • Connect
    • Xtra’s newsletters
    • Where to find Xtra
    • Ken Popert Media Fellowship
    • Get Queer podcast

Get free Xtra newsletters

Xtra is being blocked on Facebook and Instagram for Canadians as part of Meta’s response to Bill C18. Stay connected, and tell a friend.

Subscribe Now

Ⓒ 1971 - 2025 Pink Triangle Press, All right reserved. XTRA™ is a trademark of Pink Triangle Press.
Follow Us:
facebook
twitter
youtube
instagram
tiktok
reddit
RSS