Frank Hoskins
(18.. - 19..) Canada
Businessman
Member of the largest dry goods, grocery, and wholesale liquor firm in Regina, Saskatchewan; charged for homosexual activity with two other men in 1895, he was fined $200 rather than jailed or hanged, because 51 people in the community had signed a petition pleading for leniency in his sentencing; he left the firm and disappeared from Regina.
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