TORONTO (Reuters) – A statue commemorating a hero of Toronto’s gay community is raising hackles both for the actions of the man it depicts and for the somewhat graphic description of the 19th-Century sex scandal that made him famous.

But denizens of Toronto’s centrally located and often irreverent gay neighborhood — the home of the city’s hugely popular annual gay pride celebrations — say the sculpture is not offensive, and fits with the spirit of the community.

The 13-1/2 foot (4.1 meter) bronze and granite monument depicts Alexander Wood, famous for both owning the land on which the community now sits, and for being run out of town under a cloud of sexual scandal in the early 1800s.

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