I'm Dan Pierce and this is Pressure Cooker.

I said I will never wear the E-Job or give up my many skirts.

Never.

It's the outrageous story of two misfits living on the fringes

and how they became the central players in a sprawling terror investigation.

We just hung out and played video games and smoked weed and did what we do, you know.

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Queer life in Montreal in early 80s was wild.

Absolutely wild. You go out onto Peel Street and there'd be guys like dangling out of the doors

of these bars and then Stanley Street with limelight and there's all day and

buds and Coddy Dominion Square was the stroll that's where sex workers

applied their trade so it was just this eye opening fantasy land of like you know

go out of the bars at 3 a.m. and there's all these guys hitchhiking rides

down St. Catherine Street running without your code in the middle of winter

from one bar to the other and you know it was clandestine but it was also

very out there.

So yeah Montreal was a wild place back there.

It was also dangerous. Queer life was underground and to understand how a number of

men went missing without much attention we have to understand the community

and the community's relationship with the police.

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