What the records say
- When
- 5 Feb 1981
- Kind
- Military operation
- Coordinates
- 43.71° N, 79.40° W
- Description
- raid by the Metropolitan Toronto Police against four gay bathhouses in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which took place on February 5, 1981
Placed at the town its description names, Toronto.
Operation Soap
Police raid of gay bathhouses in Toronto, Canada
Operation Soap was a raid by the Metropolitan Toronto Police against four gay bathhouses in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which took place on February 5, 1981. Nearly three hundred men were arrested, the largest mass arrest in Canada since the 1970 October crisis, before the record was broken during the 2006 Stanley Cup Playoffs in Edmonton, Alberta.
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