This is the fourth and final episode of Mother Goose, The St. Charles Mob. This episode is about the changing scene on Yonge street in the late 1960s, which saw a rise a rise in invasive police surveillance and the rise a new Halloween drag ball that drew a very different crowd than the one at Letros.
If you want to learn more about this era, we suggest you read The Heart of Toronto by historian Daniel Ross, Brian Dedora’s A Slice of Voice at the Edge of Hearing, Tim McCaskell’s Queer Progress and Immoral, Indecent and Scurrilous: The Making of an Unrepentant Sex Radical by Gerald Hannon, to whom this episode is dedicated.