The Village
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In the early 1990s, as AIDS tightens its grip on major cities around the world, the relative safety of Montreal’s nightlife becomes a magnet for gay men. But when they start turning up dead in hotel rooms, beaten lifeless in city parks, and violently murdered in their own homes, the queer community has more to fear than the disease. While the city’s police force dithers over the presence of a serial killer, a group of queer activists starts making connections, and rises up to start a movement that would end up changing thousands of lives. Hosted by Francis Plourde. For the best in true crime from CBC, ad-free, visit apple.co/cbctruecrime.

S3 E7: Atonement

Years of sustained pressure finally pay off as the policing culture shifts to include activists’ input into their investigations. For transcripts of t...
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S3 E6: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

When one of its priests is found murdered in Montreal, the Anglican Church has to publicly reckon with its sins. For transcripts of this series, pleas...
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S3 E5: Out With Them All

Faced with a deadly disease, surrounded by death, AIDS activist Roger Leclerc resorts to controversial tactics to confront discrimination and violence...
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S3 E3: Chicken Little

Montreal, 1991 – Fearing a serial killer, activists decide to take matters into their own hands. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https:/...
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S3 E2: Sex Garage

Scores of police remove their badges and slip on rubber gloves before beating and arresting queer partygoers in downtown Montreal. The violence escala...
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S3 E1: La Vie en Rose

Joe Rose, a queer activist living with AIDS, is murdered in cold blood on a city bus. So public, so brutal – the city is shocked. The killing becomes ...
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