Brian Mossop – Prosopography

Brian Mossop met with the minorities subcommittee of the Metropolitan Board of Commissioners of Police in Toronto to demand an end to police entrapment of gays in parks and washrooms. He was also expelled from the Communist Party of Canada in 1976 for “exhibiting an openly hostile attitude toward the Party,” this likely being an excuse since he advocated homosexuality publicly which was against party rules. In 1977 he demanded an apology from Errol Townshend, the editor of The Islander newspaper who published an editorial attacking gays and their supporters, and instead received a vitriolic response saying “Now, drop dead. But get one thing straight before you do: Blacks and your crowd are not in the same boat.”

Names	Brian Mossop (Main) BE [n75.39]
Related Pages	Brian Mossop on LGLC Brian Mossop on VIAF
Birth Date	1946
Birth Place	London
Identities	Gay 1974 BCG [ISBN:9781280114342]
Occupations	Journalist 1975/06 - 1976 https://lglc.ca/event/n75.39 https://lglc.ca/event/n75.85 Translator 1974 ISBN:9781280114342
Associated People	Ken Popert Personal 1974 ISBN:9781280114342 Paul Trollope (Cowriters) Professional notAfter(1979) Event: November 19 Toronto The Barracks […] Brent Hawkes (Coactivists) Personal Social notAfter(1979/12/13) Event: December 13 Toronto Gay community […] George Hislop (Coactivists) Personal Social notAfter(1979/12/13) Event: December 13 Toronto Gay community […] John Lee (Coactivists) Personal Social notAfter(1979/12/13) Event: December 13 Toronto Gay community […]
Associated Organizations	Organization: Coalition for Gay Rights in Ontario CGRO (Chairperson) 1975 ISBN:9781280114342 Organization: Coalition for Gay Rights in Ontario CGRO (Founder) 1975 ISBN:9781280114342 Organization: Communist Party of Canada (Member) 1967 - 1976 ISBN:9781280114342 Organization: Gay Alliance toward Equality GATE (President) 1977 - 1980 ISBN:9781280114342 Organization: Gay Alliance toward Equality GATE (Member) ISBN:9781280114342 https://lglc.ca/organization/RTPC/ (Executive Member) - 1981 ISBN:9781280114342 https://lglc.ca/organization/RTPC/ (Founder) 1978 ISBN:9781280114342
Associated Periodicals	The Body Politic (Journalist) 1975 - 1976 BDE [n75.39], C [n75.97] Gay Rising (Journalist) 1975/06 BCE [n75.85] Canadian Dimension (Writer) 1981/12 BCE [n81.44] Our Image: The BP Review Supplement (Critic) 1977 BCE [n76.146] The Islander (LetterWriter) 1977/06/09 BCE [n77.157] The Body Politic (Translator) [1980] BCE [n80.253]