Everyday Xtra files Freedom of data demand after TTC brings ads for gay hookup web web web site
Complaints from 16 commuters objecting to an image of shirtless homosexual males adopting prompted the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) to pull adverts for the homosexual hookup website Squirt from the subway cars in September.
Everyday Xtra received copies of this complaints after filing a Freedom of Information demand underneath the Municipal Information Act in bondage.com profiles 2015 october.
Squirt.org is owned by Pink Triangle Press, that also publishes regular Xtra.
The TTC eliminated the adverts on Sept 9, 2015, simply because they promoted having intimate relations in public, spokesperson Danny Nicholson stated at that time.
On Nov 9 the TTC released 18 documents to frequent Xtra, including 15 complaints from transportation users who objected into the advertisements. Moreover it circulated one problem from a TTC worker, whom wondered whether or not the TTC needs to have an advertisement “for a website that is premised in helping guys hook up in public areas.”
Relating to TTC documents, Laurence Lui emailed TTC representative Brad Ross after their early early early morning drive on Sept 9 — the day that is same TTC chose to pull Squirt’s ads.
“Not yes the TTC must have an advertisement for a niche site that is premised in helping guys hook up in public areas (including regarding the TTC) on our trains,” writes Lui, that is defined as a TTC worker when you look at the document that is same.
Ross asks Lui in the event that advertisement implies setting up regarding the TTC. Lui reacts: “No, however the premise associated with site is starting up in general public places such as for example washrooms, areas, etc — subway place washrooms are on the website.”