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The groups’ joint statement also condemned the “insufficient” investigations into the men’s disappearances from the gay village and the fact that though “many of us felt and voiced our concerns, we were dismissed.”

The jury is still out on much of that, actually, which is why there’s going to be an independent review of the police work on the string of disappearances (the first probe was in 2012-13, the second last year) and an internal review, which was set in motion when the officer in charge, the magnificent Det.-Sgt. Hank Idsinga, learned of something that may not have been properly handled and did exactly the right thing by quickly reporting it.

And the notion that the community knew a serial killer was allegedly at work and was ignored is mostly revisionist history.

A comprehensive search of blogs, mainstream press, social media and gay community media shows that but for the headline over one blog post, in 2013, the alarm wasn’t publicly raised or reported until last summer. That doesn’t preclude individuals having gone to police earlier of course, and it doesn’t preclude investigative screw-ups, but it’s nonsense to suggest that the community was practically quivering with alarm and the force blithely ignored it.

What’s relevant to Carpay’s piece is that where once, it seemed that all the gay community wanted was equality — freedom from persecution, if you like, and the ability not to be fired from a job, not to be refused service, not to get an apartment, etc. because of sexuality — now, those who don’t embrace the full spectrum of gay and transgender life are often silenced, usually through government instrument or policy. And the community that once wanted only to be included is sometimes less than inclusive itself.