Alain Brosseau

Alain Brosseau, a waiter at the Château Laurier (in Ottawa), was walking home to his apartment in Hull, Quebec after finishing his shift at 11:30 pm on August 21, 1989. On his way he passed through Major's Hill Park. The park was known as a popular gay pick-up area, and six youths were also in the park searching for homosexuals to rob and attack. They saw Brosseau and followed him when he walked to Alexandra Bridge (between Ottawa and Gatineau, Quebec), believing incorrectly that he was gay. A short way across Brosseau was first hit with a stick and then robbed. Gang member Jeffrey Lalonde then lifted Brosseau and threw him off the bridge. Brosseau was killed instantly when he hit the rocks below. Lalonde was given a life sentence, and died in jail in 2008.

This results in an LGBT community outcry and eventually leads to the formation of the Ottawa Police Service's LGBT Liaison Committee two years later.

In 1996, Carl Stewart made a short film titled Nice Shoes Faggot, about the murder of Alain and an attack on two men in their home by the teens who murdered Alain.