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Comment on John Sewell’s support of Toronto’s gay community during the 1980 municipal election. From cartoonist Andy Donato’s frequentlimp wristed depictionsof gays to editor Peter Worthington’s threat followingthe 1981 Bathhouse Raidsto expose names of anyone rounded up in subsequent police scoops, there was no sympathy to anyone who wasn’t heterosexual.
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