Parts Of Canada's Criminal Code Criminalize Homosexuality To This Day: Activists

TORONTO — Thirty-eight years after Ron Rosenes was arrested at a popular Toronto bathhouse, and tried and convicted for being a gay man, there is still no way for him to scrub his name from police and court records. That’s because what police charged Rosenes and hundreds of other men with that winter night in 1981 — “found-ins in a common bawdy-house” — remained a criminal offence in Canada until Thursday, when the senate passed omnibus Bill C-75. The legislat