In July 1976, Montreal hosted the summer Olympics. The games were a boondoggle, raking in money for contractors and leaving the city with a billion-dollar debt that would not be paid off for thirty years. [...] But for an increasingly visible gay community, the issue was repression. Under the guise of Olympic security, Montreal police launched a crackdown on gay establishments. It began with a raid of Montreal's Aquarius sauna and the arrest of thirty-five men as "found-ins" in a bawdy house, February 1975. In October, six gay bars were raided, including the city's most popular women's bar. [The police violence escalates and escalates for a paragraph...] In May, a local employee of the Olympic organizing committee leaked a directive confirming that "non-conforming elements" were to be "driven underground" in the Quebec City-Toronto corridor for the duration of the games. Guy Toupin, the Montreal police officer co-ordinating Olympic security, claimed the raids were only "a part of our normal police work." But he went on, "if such action helps us in turning up potential terrorists, so much the better."

— Queer Progress by Tim McCaskell (13%)