Faculty of Design

Illustration

Avi Goodman

Operation Soap

In 1981, Toronto police raided 4 gay bathhouses, arresting 300 men, at the time the largest single arrest in the city’s history. Undercover cops wore red dots to signal to the others that they weren’t civilians. In this reimagining, the red-faced cops are too embarrassed to notice the Queen slipping out of her cuffs – most of the arrested at the raids were found innocent.