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Article: Antidote to hysteria: an interview with Shannon Bell.
- Article from:
- Borderlines
- Article date:
- April 1, 1996
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London, Ontario has been the setting for a police and media sponsored moral panic involving a series of arrests of teenage hustlers and gay men. Local presses have been ablaze with inflammatory articles outlining the so-called depraved practices of gay men who allegedly hunt down boys in order to have their way with them. By March 1995 there had been 45 gay men arrested and 371 charges brought down. Half of these charges involved the solicitation of sexual services of a person under 18--teen prostitution. There was one charge of making child pornography and 20 of possessing it. London Police Chief, Julian Fantino, used the media and public meetings to stir up public ...
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