Two Solitudes: Fighting for LGBT rights in Montreal

This week, we take a look at the history of police repression against Montreal’s LGBT community and linguistic divides in the Gay Village.
To better understand a dark chapter in our city’s history, Rachel Collier and Catherine Mathys visited the Archives Gaies du Québec. Ross Higgins, who co-founded the archives, spoke about being in Montreal bars as police burst through the doors and rounded up queer patrons without cause.
“They would carry machine guns during some raid