My family spent 20 years on the run fleeing from threats I still struggled to

fully comprehend.

There's people out there that want to do us harm.

We got a phone call saying that your father's thugs were coming to break my legs.

Run hide repeat the unbelievable true story of a fugitive family and the

unimaginable truth of what we were running from.

Available now on CBC Listen and everywhere you get your podcasts.

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Here we were after all of those years and nonsense of parading around with those

signs and those false coffins and we had been through months years of game

murders and demonstrations and what suddenly we got what we wanted.

As the old joke goes you to be careful about what you want.

What Michael Hendricks wanted was for the government to address the steady

stream of violence against Quebec's queer community and in 1993 it got just

that a public hearing at the Human Rights Commission.

It was a resounding victory a first in Canada and yet on the eve of its opening

all signs suggested it was about to be sidetracked.

The murders the violence suddenly footnotes instead of the main focus and he wasn't

going to let that happen.

We were discussing whether we should have a demo Monday morning right here in

Old Montreal thinking about terrible things we could do to ruin their public

or hearings stink bombs I mean it went quite far and to make our point when

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