{"id":16790,"date":"2018-04-27T14:46:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T18:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aidslaw.ca\/site\/?p=16790"},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:25:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T01:25:02","slug":"ron-rosenes-submission-to-the-house-of-commons-standing-committee-on-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"blog22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/ron-rosenes-submission-to-the-house-of-commons-standing-committee-on-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Rosenes Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"The 1981 bathhouse raids in Toronto were a brutal attack by the police force on members of a marginalized community. On February 5<sup>th<\/sup> of that year, four bathhouses were simultaneously raided by police, who arrested and humiliated the men inside. These men had done nothing wrong, but some were convicted of being \u201cfound-ins at a common bawdy-house\u201d and made to pay a fine. They were also left with a permanent criminal record. One of these men was Ron Rosenes, now chair of the Legal Network\u2019s board.<\/p>\n<p>This month, Ron testified in front of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Rights about his experience and to call for these records to be expunged under Bill C-66. These convictions were rooted in state-sponsored homophobia and shouldn\u2019t be allowed to stand. We applaud Ron and all those who have come forward to tell this important piece of Canadian history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Ron-Rosenes-submission-to-Members-of-the-Senate-Standing-Committee-on-Human-Rights-FINAL.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/16791\/?tmstv=1775735371\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","publication_topics":[153,146],"publication_language":[184],"class_list":["post-16790","blog22","type-blog22","status-publish","hentry","publication_topics-lgbtq-rights","publication_topics-discrimination","publication_language-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog22\/16790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=16790"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=16790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}