On an evening in early December 2018, the young CEO of a cryptocurrency exchange reportedly

dies while on his honeymoon in India.

This death is not announced to customers for another month, and when their told Gerald

Cotton is the only person to hold the passwords to their funds, conspiracy theories grow, leaving

some to wonder, could Gerald Cotton still be alive?

Honeymoon, moving to body, all the missing money, it was like, but what happened?

This is a CBC podcast.

Gerald Rose's death and sex garage and the murders of gay men and the AIDS conference

in 89 and Quebec Human Rights Commission hearings on gay and lesbian bi-trans issues, they're

each throwing a pebble into a pond and they reverberate.

They create waves that reach people and places and things that can't help a grow.

I've said it before and it bears repeating, what happened here in Montreal in the early

90s, transformed the way we talk about violence, about AIDS, about homophobia and what it

means to be queer.

Here it's Park Les Poins.

This is also a place where I was with Joe.

So I'm back in the village with Louis Alain Robitaille, who we met at the beginning of this

series.

He's showing me around the Park de Les Poins, the Park of Hope, a tiny patch on a street

corner, now a village landmark.

It was not even a park back then, it was an empty lot.

And some activists put a lot of pressure on the city of Montreal to turn it into a memorial

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