Toward the end of the 19th Century, the traditional silence of the Canadian media on the subject of homosexuality began to crack. The media had previously maintained a constant state of denial around homosexuality – claiming that it did not exist in Canada, at least not among Europeans, when it was mentioned at all. [...]
Archive for July, 2008
The Media and Homosexuality in the 19th Century, Part 1 – Two Celebrity Trials
Posted in Dominion of Canada, gay/bi men's history, history on July 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The First Police Raid
Posted in Dominion of Canada, gay/bi men's history, history on July 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In November, 1891, at Montreal, two labourers – John Pettigrew and William Gray – became quite drunk. They started to have sex. Though I haven’t been able to find out where this happened, it must have been a fairly public place – the two men had the misfortune of being stumbled upon [...]
