SERIAL KILLER: Bruce McArthur

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True Crime

4.7 • 352.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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For years, the LGBTQ community in Toronto, Canada worried there was a serial killer targeting men in the city’s Church and Wellesley neighborhood. Police disagreed and downplayed their concerns -- and all the while, more men vanished into thin air. But the truth, when it was finally revealed, showed just how complicated a relationship still exists between Toronto Police and the LGBTQ community.

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0:00.0	Hi, Crime Junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers.
0:03.4	And I'm Brett.
0:04.4	And the story I have for you today is an important story to close out this year's Pride Month.
0:09.4	It's sometimes easy to see the glitzy side of Pride,
0:13.6	this fun party with celebratory parades,
0:16.4	but at its core, Pride was and is a protest.
0:21.5	I mean, it began as a protest,
0:23.6	a protest against police after they raided New York's Stonewall Inn back in 1960.
0:29.8	That particular police raid was hardly the first of its kind,
0:34.8	more like the straw that broke the camel's back.
0:38.2	The complicated and often confrontational relationship between police and the LGBTQ community
0:44.4	goes much further back than Stonewall.
0:47.1	And it's easy to forget that it wasn't that many years ago here in America that being gay was illegal.
0:54.0	Dressing in drag was illegal.
0:56.5	And police were out there enforcing those laws.
0:59.5	Laws that today seem ridiculous.
1:01.9	Were the most part, at least in North America,
1:04.1	police aren't out there with a mandate to enforce morality laws,
1:07.4	the ones that govern who we can and can't sleep with or love and what we can and can't wear.
1:13.7	But that doesn't mean everything is fine and dandy between the queer community and the police.
1:19.9	As straight cisgendered people, I think it's easy to look around at all the things like marriage equality
1:25.4	and think that the fight for queer liberation is largely over.
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