In an article that Roberton co-wrote with anti-violence advocate Marsha McLeod, the two call sex in public parks “a longstanding tradition in urban centres,” adding that some homeless and closeted people “may frequent parks for sex because they do not have access to an indoor space for sex” or “other means of meeting other MSM.” They consider sting operations such as Project Marie a form of sexual violence in their use of coercion and forcible punishment through sex. But urban planner Jen Roberton wonders whether the same time and money would’ve been spent targeting heterosexual couples. The Toronto cops claim they weren’t targeting gay men, they’d just received community complaints about people having public sex at all hours. Afterwards, Toronto’s LGBT community called out the cops for targeting gay and bisexual men and shamed the media for conflating men who have sex with men (MSM) with pedophiles in their interviews with teary parents who talked about strange men eying their children.