I chat with radio personality J’Lyn Nye from 630 CHED about the impacts and damage done to the gay community on the 40th anniversary of the Pisces Bathhouse raid by the Edmonton Police Service May 30, 1981. Catch the podcast at the link below. https://www.listennotes.com/en/podcasts/630-ched-afternoons/queer-historian-ron-byers-on-NL-g3dqPTot/embed/
40 years later, Edmonton’s queer community looks back on the Pisces bathhouse raid
“They just did this raid in such a totally different manner from what they had done in previous raids in massage parlours, other common bawdy houses in the city, which were more straight-oriented,” Byers said. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/lgbtq2s-edmonton-pisces-raid-1.6047015
Shattered lives’: A look at Edmonton police raid of Pisces Spa bathhouse four decades later
Four decades have passed since dozens of gay men were arrested during a raid at Edmonton’s Pisces Health Spa, charged and outed to the broader community, changing their lives completely. Fifty-six men and six employees were arrested under bawdy house laws when 40 Edmonton police, seven RCMP officers and two […]
40th anniversary of Pisces Health Spa raids – Edmonton Police Service
2021 marks the 40th anniversary of the Pisces Health Spa bathhouse raids by the Edmonton Police Service (EPS). To acknowledge the trauma and impact of the raids, and to show their support to the Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Transgender, and Queer (2SLGBTQ+) community, the EPS is releasing a documentary-style […]
« Intrusion et intimidation » : quand la police s’en prenait aux gais d’Edmonton
“Trespassing and intimidation”: when the police attacked gays in Edmonton https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1796889/descente-police-spa-gai-edmonton-pisces-lgbtq-michael-phair