Mariana Valverde is a 66-year-old, queer, Canadian woman of Spanish descent. She is a political activist, scholar, and former Professor of Criminology at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies. At the time of the interview in 2021, Valverde was living in Toronto during the COVID-19 pandemic, while working on a number of scholarly and political commitments. As a liquor licensing expert, Valverde’s interview mostly concerns her perspectives on the legal strategy used by Frank Addario’s team in The Crown v. Aitcheson and Hornick (2001, OCJ). Valverde discusses her history of work in sexuality studies as a sociolegal scholar, her involvement in The Body Politic collective, her consultation with Frank Addario in advance of the civil trial, and other topics. She dedicates much of her interview to unpacking the ways in which the defence’s gender essentialist legal argument resulted in a complicated victory for the broader queer community. Specifically, while Valverde acknowledges the ease with which the judicial system could accommodate the idea that the invasion of male police officers in a “women-only” space violated the bathhouse patrons’ right to privacy, such an argument avoided interrogating the extraordinary power that Ontario liquor licensing laws confer on police, allowing them to mobilize this power — in the case of the Pussy Palace raid — for purposes of moral regulation. In the interview, Valverde mentions the following geographical locations: Spain; and Toronto and Ottawa, Ontario in Canada. She speaks about the time between 1976 and 2003 as well as her present-day relationship to community and politics.