Restricted entry
Subtitle: censorship on trial
By: Janine Fuller & Stuart Blackley ; edited by Nancy Pollak
Contributors: Blackley, Stuart; Pollak, Nancy
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Press Gang Publishers
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780889740532
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Gays' writings; Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium; Freedom of speech; Censorship; Trials (Obscenity)
Other titles: Censorship on trial
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-216).

Lambda Literary Award, 1995