Right to Privacy Committee

The Right to Privacy Committee (RTPC) was a Canadian organization located in Toronto, and was one of the city's largest and most active advocacy groups during the 1980s, a time of strained police-minority relations.[1] The group focused on the Toronto Police Service's harassment of gays and infringement of privacy rights, and challenged police authority to search gay premises and seize materials.[2][3] At the time of the 1981 bathhouse raids, RTPC was Canada's largest gay rights group with a mailing and volunteer list of 1,200 names.[2] People associated with the RTPC include Michael Laking, Rev. Brent Hawkes, John Alan Lee, Dennis Findlay, Tom Warner, and George W. Smith.[1]

  1. ^ a b Krawczyk, Bob (June 1991). "Remembering the RTPC". CLGA. Retrieved April 6, 2017.
  2. ^ a b Smith, Miriam (1991). Lesbian and Gay Rights in Canada: Social Movements and Equality Seeking, 1971-1995. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-8197-1.
  3. ^ Couture, Joseph (2009). Peek: Inside the Private World of Public Sex. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-56023-647-4.