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Restricted Entry: Censorship on Trial bears witness to the epic fight waged by Little Sister's bookstore during a decade of resisting stare censorship of gay and lesbian literature. Recognized as one of the century's most impressive challenges to state censorship, this is a story with international consequences.
The second edition of Restricted Entry includes a summary of the court ruling, which was pending when the book was first published. Although celebrated as a partial victory for queer culture, the case will proceed to the Court of Appeal, as Little Sister's bookstore continues to dispute Canada Customs' censorship powers. At stake is the public's right to make our own choices about what we will or will not read.
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Censorship, Freedom of speech, Freedom of the press, Gays' writings, Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium, Trials (Obscenity), Trials, litigation, Trials, litigation, etc, Gay & Lesbian studies, Politics - Current Events, Homosexuality, Social Science, Politics / Current Events, Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction, Gay Studies, Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights, Social Science / Media Studies, Political Science, Little Sister's Book & Art Emporium, Freedom of informationEdition | Availability |
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Restricted Entry: Censorship on Trial
June 20, 2002, Raincoast Books, Press Gang Publishers
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Restricted entry: censorship on trial
1996, Press Gang Publishers
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1996, Press Gang Publishers
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Restricted entry: censorship on trial
1995, Press Gang Publishers
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1995, Press Gang Publishers
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1995, Press Gang Publishers
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227) and index.
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What do Oscar Wilde, Jane Rule, Jean Genet and Sarah Schulman have in common? They have all had their novels seized by the border guards of Canada Customs. And what has Little Sister's, a small gay and lesbian bookstore in western Canada, done about it? They have taken the Government to court, launching one of the century's most impressive challenges to state censorship. Restricted Entry is the story of Little Sister's battle to end Customs' ongoing harassment of gay and lesbian authors and booksellers. In the final months of 1994, the lawsuit was played out in provincial Supreme Court with all the intensity of an old-fashioned obscenity trial. The courtroom drama pitted bookseller versus vice squad, artist vs. psychologist, author vs. bureaucrat. Pierre Berton, Sarah Schulman, Carole Vance and Pat Califia, among many others, testified in the fight for an end to censorship of minority cultures and in defence of all people's right to choose what they will or will not read.
Restricted Entry presents the highlights of Little Sister's decade-long struggle from seizures and store bombings, to crucial questions about pornography and censorship. The reader is given a behind-the-scenes account of the historic case, whose outcome will affect book lovers and writers around the world.
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