CENSORSHIP/CENSURE

 

Barber, John.

            “Sex and Censorship.”  Maclean’s, September 1, 1986, pp. 36-40.

                                    Broader than scope of this bibliography. See esp. pp. 39-40 regarding

                                    Glad Day Bookshop and Canada Customs interference.

 

“The Battle over Censorship.”  Maclean’s [Toronto ed.], October 24, 1994, pp. 26-29.

                                    Mentions Little Sister’s Book & Art Emporium case and others.  Broader

                                    than scope of this bibliography.

 

“BC Court Redefines ‘Secular’ Schools: How Book-Ban Decision Opens Door to

            Religion.”  Vancouver Sun, September 22, 2000, pp. A1, A4.

 

Bearchell, Chris.

            “Cut That Out!”  This Magazine 26(6) (Jan./Feb. 1993): 37-40  (2971 words).

 

Beers, David.

            “The Fringe on Top: The Christian Fundamentalists Who Control the Surrey

            School Board Say They’re Reflecting the Wishes of the Populace;  Facts

            Suggest Otherwise.”  Vancouver Magazine 31(9) (Dec. 1998): 36-42.

                                    Concerns censorship of three gay-themed children’s picture books.

                                    See following citation and its note and also note at Gawthrop entry.

 

“Both Sides Claim Victory in [Surrey, B.C. School District] Same-Sex Book Case.”

            Vancouver Sun, September 21, 2000, pp. A1, A4.

                                    See related article, titled  “BC Court Redefines ‘Secular’ Schools: How

                                    Book-Ban Decision Opens Door to Religion,” Vancouver Sun, September

                                    22, p. A1 (ref. from CBCA index).

                                    Supreme Court of Canada slated to hear June 12 (Toronto Star, 4/4/02,

                                    p. A13)

 

Brook, Paula.

            “War over Words: It’s a Battle over Three Slim Storybooks.  But It Has

            Sparked a Bitter Values Clash in Surrey, B.C.”  Chatelaine,

            December 1998, pp. 46-52+.

                                    There have been many reports of this issue over the months.  Only some

                                    of the major articles have been included, in order to call attention to

                                    the issue and its progression.  The user wishing to research the matter

                                    more thoroughly can draw more items from various indexes to

                                    Canadian general-interest magazines (CPI.Q and CBCA products, e.g.).

                                    See more extensive note at Gawthrop, below in this section.

 

Brownworth, Victoria A.

            “Gagging Ourselves”  Lambda Book Report 4 (Sept.-Oct. 1994): 11-12.

                                    About Canada Customs seizures of gay/lesbian literature and works

destined to gay bookstores.  Lambda Book Report is a major American

gay/lesbian reviewing journal and Brownworth is a Philadelphia

columnist.  Another citation gives title as “Censored!”

 

Busby, Karen.

            “LEAF [(Women’s) Legal Education and Action Fund] and Pornography:

            Litigating on Equality and Sexual Representations.”  Canadian Journal of

            Law and Society 9 (Spring 1994): 165-192.

                                    Broader than scope of this bibliography, but concerns gay men, lesbians,

                                    censorship, the Criminal Code, and the Canadian Charter of Rights and

                                    Freedoms.

 

Busby, Karen.

                        “The Queer Sensitive Interveners in the Little Sisters Case: A Response to

                        Dr. Kendall.”  Journal of Homosexuality 47(3-4) (2004): 129-150.

                                                Ref.: PsycINFO index, which provides abstract and notes that article

                                                concerns the interveners in the Supreme Court of Canada case of

                                                Little Sisters v. Canada. The issue in which this article appears is

                                                a special issue, “Eclectic Views on Gay Male Pornography: Pornucopia.”

Compiler does not know if this relates to Christopher Kendall’s Gay Male

Pornography, listed elsehwere. Abstract for Busby article instructs user to

see PsycINFO record 2004-21469-006.

 

Busby, Karen.

            “What Did Little Sisters Teach Big Brother?” Herizons 15(1)(Summer 2001):

            20  (1230 words).

Ref.: Expanded Academic ASAP electronic index.

                                    About Little Sister’s bookstore in Vancouver and Supreme Court

                                    of Canada decision resulting from seizure of works being imported

                                    by the store.

 

Cameron, Heather E.

            “Queer Experts at the ‘Little Sister’s’ Trial: An Interview with Janine Fuller.”

            Canadian Woman Studies 16 (Spring 1996): 80-83.

                                    Little Sister’s Book & Art Emporium, Vancouver, B.C.

 

Campbell, Colin.

            “Lesbians on the Loose.”  Fuse [Toronto] 10(6) (Spring 1987): 21-24.

 

“Canada’s Curious Customs: Gay Lit, Censorship and the Law : Persky.”

            This Magazine 21(1) (March/April 1987): 33-36.

 

Carol, Elaine.

            “Little Sister’s vs. Canada Customs: Liberalism, Queer Culture and

            Censorship.”  Border/Lines 44 (1997): 36-39.

                                    Little Sister’s Book & Art Emporium, Vancouver.  The article

                                    “considers the long history of censorship of sex-related publications

                                    in Germany in the 1930s and more recently in Canada” – NISC Gay &

                                    Lesbian Abstracts.

 

Carter, Julie H.

                        “Surrey, British Columbia: Book Ban in the Courts.”  Journal of Gay and

                        Lesbian Issues in Education 1(4) (2004): 81-85.

                                                Ref.: MLA International Bibliography

 

“Censorship Comments the Court Didn’t Hear – Persky.”  Globe and Mail

            [Metro ed.], October 22, 1994, p. C32.

                                    About Little Sister’s Book & Art Emporium, Vancouver, case

                                    against Canada Customs.

 

“The Chill Factor: Artists Fight against ‘Unofficial Censorship’.”

            Parallelogramme [Toronto] 18(3) (Winter 1992/93): 16, 18+.

French article in same issue, pp. 17, 19+, under title:  “Le facteur

d’intimidation: la lutte des artistes contre la censure ‘non officielle’.”

 

Cohen, Jonathan.

            “More Censorship or Less Discrimination?: Sexual Orientation Hate Propaganda

                        in Multiple Perspectives.”  McGill Law Journal 46(Nov. 2000): 69-104.

 

Collins, Damian.

                        “Culture, Religion and Curriculum: Lessons from the ‘Three Books’ Controversy

                        in Surrey, BC.”  Canadian Geographer 50(3): (2006): 342-357.

 

Cossman, Brenda, and Ryder, Bruce.

            “Customs Censorship and the Charter: The Little Sister’s Case.”

            Constitutional Forum 7 (Summer 1996): 103-112.

                                    Relevant statutes: Customs Act; Canadian Charter of Rights and

                                    Freedoms, s. 15.

 

Creede, Catherine.

            “Censorship and Mainstream Media: Is Someone Massaging the Message?”

            Fuse [Toronto] 16(2) (Winter 1992/93): 13-15.

 

Fenn, Sarah.

                        “Gag Order.”  This Magazine 36(6) (May-June 2003): 7  (1 page newsnote;

                        322 words).

                                                Ref.: CPI.Q index

                                                Concerns censoring of Canadian copies of San Francisco-based

                                                On Our Backs lesbian magazine.  Disticor is Canadian distributor.

                                                (Note that This Magazine is sometimes referred to in indexing as This).

 

Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada.  Introductions by Pat Califia

            and Janine Fuller.  Pittsburgh, PA: Cleis Press, 1995.

            (176 p.; ISBN 1573440205; 1573440191)

 

Fuller, Janine, and Blackley, Stuart.

            Restricted Entry: Censorship on Trial.  Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1995.

            (216 p.; ISBN 0889740534)  [2nd ed.; Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1996

            (ISBN 0889740666)]

                                    Concerns Little Sister’s Book & Art Emporium, Vancouver and its

                                    encounters with Canada Customs.  Issue went to Supreme Court of

                                    Canada.  See, e.g., Makin article, below in this section. 

 

Gawthrop, Daniel.

            “Surrey Book Ban Challenged in B.C. Court: Coalition’s Lawsuit against the

            Surrey School Board is a Canadian First.”  Quill & Quire 63(10) (Oct. 1997):

            22.

                                    Three books, one Canadian imprint (Elwin’s Asha’s Mums) and two

                                    American ones (Newman’s Belinda’s Bouquet and Valentine’s

                                    One Dad, Two Dads, Brown Dad, Blue Dads) were at issue.  See, e.g.,

                                    Saunders article, below in this section, for B.C. Supreme Court ruling.

 

“Gay-Friendly Book Reinstated.” 

Globe and Mail, February 7, 1998, p. A8.

                                    Ref.: Tom Warner, Never Going Back, p. 339.  This concerns

                                    Calgary Public School Board and attempt to ban two books from

                                    school library using argument that they were “really pro-gay.” One

                                    was reinstated.

 

“Glad Day Case Tests Community Standards: Lesbian Magazine Subject to Charges.”

            Globe and Mail, December 17, 1992, p. C1.

                                    About Bad Attitude.

 

“Glad Day Seizure [by Canada Customs].”  Globe and Mail [Metro ed.],

            June 30, 1995, p. C1.

                                    Concerns Glad Day Bookshop, a Toronto gay bookstore.

Gray, John M.

             “A Very Suburban Culture War.”  Our Schools, Our Selves: A Magazine for

              Canadian Education Activists 10(2)  (January 2001): 131-135.

 

Grubisic, Brett J., and Young, Brian.

            “Fear and Loathing on the Prairie.”  Fuse [Toronto] 17(3) (Spring 1994): 9-10.

                                    University of Saskatchewan student art exhibit withdrawn; persons

mentioned: Christopher A. Lefler, Sylvia Fedoruk.  See also the two

entries, at Russell and Young, below in this section.

Related [?] ref.: Maureen Bradley, Tainted: Christopher Lefler and

the Queer Censorship Chill (“28-min. artist’s tape”), listed in

“Saskatchewan Bibliography,” on SRSD Website (viewed Feb. 25, 2009).

 

Hamilton, Val.

            “Banned!”  Bookmark 40(1) (Sept 1998): 41-43.

                                    Bookmark published by British Columbia School Librarians’ Association

                                    of the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation.

 

Hill, Lawrence.

            “Parents’ Smear Campaign Scores Some Disturbing Victories.”  Globe and

            Mail, February 11, 1997, p. E1.

                                    Milton, Ontario, censorship campaign concerning Joyce Carol

       Oates’s Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang, for which see LITERATURE

– NOVELS section.

 

Jochelson, Richard.

                        “How Equality Rights May Expand the Scope of Expression for Homosexual

                        Pornographic Speech: A Modified Freedom of Expression Test.”

                        LL.M thesis, University of Toronto, 2003.

                        (59 p.)

                                                Ref.: Index to Canadian Legal Literature.

 

Karaian, Lara.

                        “Troubling the Definition of Pornography: Little Sisters, A New Defining

                        Moment in Feminists’ Engagement with the Law?”  Canadian Journal of

                        Women and the Law 17(1) (Winter 2005): 117-133.

                                                Case: R. v. Butler,  Little Sisters Book & Art Emporium v. Canada

                                                (Minister of Justice)  [1992] 1 S.C.R. 452  [2000] 2 S.C.R. 1120

                                                Ref.: Index to Canadian Legal Literature, where descriptors include

                                                Lesbian feminism and Lesbians – Legal status, laws, etc.

 

Kinsman, Gary.

            “Porn/Censor Wars and the Battlefields of Sex.”  In Issues of Censorship,

            pp. 31-39.  Toronto: A Space, 1985.

                                    Broader in both geographical and subject scope than contents

                                    of this bibliography, but includes both issues of gay male

                                    pornography and Canadian matters.

 

Lockard, Ray Anne, and Waugh, Thomas, comps.

            Queer Customs: Censorship on the US-Canadian Border: A Selective Bibliography.

            Montreal: Concordia University, 1995. (13 p.)

 

Lowes, Carol.

                        “Christian Parents Flee Public Schools: Canadian High Court Orders School

                        Board to Reconsider Pro-gay Books.  Christianity Today 47(3) (March 2003):

                        23  (563 words)

 

MacDonald, Ingrid.

            “Customary Bias: Canada Customs Is Preventing Positive Images of Lesbian

            Sex.”  Broadside: A Feminist Review 8(9) (July 1987): 4.

 

Makin, Kirk, and Alphonso, Caroline.

            “Gay-Book Sellers Win Supreme Court Case.”  Globe and Mail [Metro ed.],

            December 16, 2000, pp. A1, A9.

                                    About Little Sister’s Book & Art Emporium, Vancouver, and its

long-fought case against Canada Customs for seizures of books and videos.

 

Manguel, Alberto.

            “Daring to Speak One’s Name.”  Index on Censorship [London, England] 24

            (Jan.-Feb. 1995): 16-23, 26-29.

                                    Censorship and relationship to homosexual writers.

 

McFarlane, Courtnay.

            “Censorship, Passion & Identity.”  Border/Lines [York University] 32 (1994):

            34-35.

 

“O Canada, They Stand on Guard for Thee.”  Globe and Mail, June 20, 1992, p. C7.

                                    Oxford University Press decides not to publish Richard More’s Gay Ideas.

 

Pallante, Maria, and Tucker, Lee.

            A Ruling Inspired by U.S. Anti-Pornography Activists Is Used to Restrict

            Lesbian and Gay Publications in Canada.  New York, N.Y.: Human Rights

            Watch Free Expression Project, 1994.  (11 p.)

 

“Reform BC Backs Book Ban [of Surrey School Board].”  Globe and Mail

            [Metro ed.], February 24, 1998, p. A4.

                                    Person named: Wilf Hanni.

 

Ross, Becki.

            “‘Wunna His Fantasies’: The State/d Indefensibility of Lesbian Smut.”

            Fireweed 2(38)(Spring 1993): 38-47.

                                    Ref.: Kinsman, Regulation of Desire, 2nd ed., p. 371, ftnt. 72,

                                    stating that this is about “the Bad Attitude trial following the

                                    Butler decision.”

 

Rule, Jane.

            Detained at Customs: Jane Rule Testifies at the Little Sister’s Trial.  2nd ed.;

            Vancouver, B.C.: Lazara Press, 1995.

            (19 p.; ISBN 092099928X)

                                    Concerning Little Sister’s Book & Art Emporium, Vancouver.

 

Russell, Jim.

            “A Gaze Blank and Pitiless as the Sun.”  Fuse [Toronto] 18(2) (1994): 7-12.

                                    Christopher Lefler case, University of Saskatchewan.  See also

                                    entries at Grubisic and at Young in this section.

        Related [?] ref.: Maureen Bradley, Tainted: Christopher Lefler and

the Queer Censorship Chill (“28-min. artist’s tape”), listed in

“Saskatchewan Bibliography,” on SRSD Website (viewed Feb. 25, 2009).

 

Saunders, Mary.

            “Book Ban Breaks the Law: Following Is an Excerpt from the Supreme Court of

            BC’s Wednesday Ruling against the Surrey School Board’s Ban on Young

            People’s Books with Homosexual Content.”  Vancouver Sun,

            December 17, 1998, p. A19.

This is just one of several reports of this ruling.  See also, e.g., Globe and

Mail [Metro ed.], December 17, 1998, p. A5.

 

“Schools Can’t Ban Gay Books, Court Rules: BC Board Faulted for Giving in to

            Objections of Religious Parents [Supreme Court of Canada].” Globe and Mail

            [Metro ed.], December 21, 2002, pp. A1, A10.

                                    Ref.: CBCA electronic index

                                    James Chamberlain; Surrey (B.C.) School Board.

For a viewpoint in the gay press, see, e.g., Michelle Maloney Leonard,

“Unconfusing the Kids: Why Not Teach Queer Culture in Schools?”  Xtra!

[Toronto], February 6, 2003, p. 17.

 

Shariff, Shaheen.

            “Managing the Dilemma of Competing Rights: The Case of the Three Books.”

            M.A. thesis, Simon Fraser University, 1999.

            (223 p.)

 

“Sister’s Day in Court: Landmark Case Challenges Problem-Plagued Customs

            Censorship.” Quill & Quire 61(2) (February 1995): 1, 12+  (1801 words).

                                    Concerns B.C. Supreme Court hearing, which was followed later (see

                                    elsewhere in this bibliography) by Supreme Court of Canada hearing.

 

“Six-Year-Olds Benefit from Gay Parent Books: Teacher.”  National Post, June 13,

            2002,  pp. A1, A5.

                                    Ref.: CBCA electronic index.

                                    James Chamberlain; Surrey (B.C.) School Board; book censorship

                                    issue.

 

Stewart, Susan.

            Drawing the Line: Lesbian Sexual Politics on the Wall.  Photography by Susan

            Stewart in collaboration with Persimmon Blackbridge and Lizard Jones.

            Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1991.

            (ISBN 0889740305)

                                    Review: Cynthia Wright, Quill & Quire 57(10) (Oct. 1991): 31.

 

Taylor, Susan R.

            “Gay and Lesbian Pornography and the Obscenity Laws in Canada.”

            Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies 8(1999): 94-129.

 

“This Case Is Out of Control.”  Globe and Mail [Metro ed.], April 8, 2002, p. A6.

                                    Ref.: CBCA electronic index.

                                    Little Sister’s Book & Art Emporium; Canada Customs &

                                    Revenue; Janine Fuller ; Jim Deva.

                                    Article is Part 2 of 4 in series “Judging the Charter.”

 

Valverde, Mariana, and Weir, Lorna.

            “Thrills, Chills and the ‘Lesbian Threat,’ or The Media, the State and Women’s

            Sexuality.”  In Women against Censorship, pp. 99-106.  Edited by Varda

            Burstyn.  Vancouver and Toronto: Douglas and McIntyre, 1985.

                                    Ref.: Kinsman, Regulation of Desire, 2nd ed., pp. 369-70, ftnt. 63.

 

Waugh, Thomas.

            “Harder and Harder: Archeology and Censorship.”  MIX: The Magazine of

            Artist-Run Culture [Toronto] 22(3) (Winter 1996/97): 35-39.

                                    On the difficulties of publishing book on history of gay erotica.

 

What Right?: Graphic Interpretations against Censorship. 

                        Edited by Robin Fisher.  Vancouver, BC: Arsenal Pulp Press, c2002.

                        (175 p.: ISBN 1551521377)

                                                Ref.: N. Richards communication;  AMICUS no. 27349476

                                                Compiler has not seen.

 

Wong, Lloyd.

            “Red, Hot, Chill: Recent Decisions by the Supreme Court of Canada Pertaining

            to the Definition of Obscenity, Seizures by Canada Customs and Charges

            Laid by Ontario’s Provincial Police.”  Fuse [Toronto] 16(2) (Winter 1992/93):

            7-8.

 

Young, Brian K., and Grubisic, Brett.

            “Rites of Privacy: A Christopher Lefler Update.”  Fuse 18(1) (1994): 7-10.

                                    Lefler’s community play, “Wedding: Closet.”

Related [?] ref.: Maureen Bradley, Tainted: Christopher Lefler and

the Queer Censorship Chill (“28-min. artist’s tape”), listed in

“Saskatchewan Bibliography,” on SRSD Website (viewed Feb. 25, 2009).