Statue of gay icon pulled down because people say it\u0027s racist now
This is a statue of Alexander Wood, a Toronto pioneer adopted as a icon of the city’s gay community due to his involvement in a 19th century scandal in which he attempted to find a suspected rapist by inspecting the genitals of the community’s young men. Erected in the city’s gay district just 17 years ago, the statue was destroyed Monday due to largely inaccurate claims that Wood was an advocate for Indian Residential Schools.of “war crimes” in Ukraine and that “these acts cannot go unpunished.
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