The honor of all the Chief Justice and the Associate of the United States

Most Americans have made up their minds about the Spring Court.

It's either restoring justice or destroying America.

The Supreme Court is not going to save us.

I'm Julia Lungoria and in this season of more perfect, we're making sense of the Spring Court today.

Listen to more perfect from WNYC Studios wherever you get podcasts.

This is a CBC Podcast.

Maybe you've seen the headlines.

In February 2019, Bruce MacArthur appeared in a Toronto courtroom.

He was sentenced to life in prison for killing eight men.

MacArthur's conviction answered some questions.

Painful questions, ones that had hung over Toronto's queer community for years.

But it also reopened old mysteries.

Mysteries that go back decades.

To a time when being gay meant being a target.

To when the community had to defend itself because police wouldn't.

When the closet was, for many, just a safer choice than coming out.

To a time when queer people were winding up dead

and their killers were getting away with it.

Our story starts in 2018.

This was a green yard with flower beds.

This is the section in the middle of it.

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