Almost the entire world can recite verbatim the moving history of Stonewall. But how many of us knew that almost a quarter of a century after those seminal riots, Montreal would have its own Stonewall.
After-hours parties and police raids are both Montreal traditions, so no one was surprised when Montreal police raided the Sex Garage loft party in Old Montreal on a hot July night in 1990.
What no one knew, though, was that history would be made on this morning, at 4am, Jul 16, 1990, and it all began when the cops took off their name tags.
"We were scared when the police got into battalion formation because we knew then that we were going to be beaten," said Montreal photographer Linda Dawn Hammond, now based in Toronto.
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