GLAD DAY BOOKSHOP (Toronto)

[Glad Day, Toronto bookshop, goes to court over The Joy of Gay Sex]. From Saskatoon Star-Phoenix.
P30 [misnumbered 29] [1987]: 12 (10cm.)
Glad Day challenge [appeal of ban on importation of The Joy of Gay Sex went to Ontario District Court January 19]. From Rites/H. Chudyk.
P31 (March 11, 1987): 12-13 (41cm.)
Victory for Joy of Gay Sex [Judge Bruce Hawkins, Ontario District Court, rules book not obscene; book had been seized, with others, in December 1986 by Canada Customs from Glad Day shipment]. By Harold Chudyk.
P32 (April 29, 1987): 25 (36cm.)
Customs still having seizures [books for Glad Day Bookshop, Toronto, and Vancouver Women's Bookstore seized].
P35 (Sept. 9, 1987): 10 (8cm.)
Continued Customs seizures [of Glad Day Bookshop, Toronto, shipments]. From newsnotes compiled by Gens Hellquist.
P45 (Nov. 9, 1988): 31-32 (24cm.)
Customs strikes again [against Glad Day Bookshop, Toronto].
P47 (v7n2)(March 1, 1989): 7 (21cm.)
Back to court [Glad Day planning to launch another court case against Canada Customs activities; Little Sister's (Vancouver) and L'Androgyne (Montreal) also have shipments seized regularly].
P48 (v7n3)(April 12, 1989): 7-8 (22cm.)
Busted again [Glad Day Bookshop, Toronto, charged by Ontario Provincial Police with selling obscene material; concerns lesbian leather magazine, Bad Attitude; manager charged April 30; four days later police return and charge store owner].
P73 (v10n4)(June 10, 1992): 19 (29cm.)
Gay sex: "obscene" [Glad Day Bookshop loses case on July 15; Judge Frank Hayes ruled all gay magazines seized were obscene; ruling based on Butler decision of Supreme Court of Canada; specific titles mentioned].
P75 (v10n6)(Sept. 16, 1992): 21 (24cm.)
Defining standards [court case regarding seizure of periodical, Bad Attitude, from Glad Day Bookshop has been heard; verdict expected February; some details of the trial].
P78 (v11n1)(Jan. 27, 1993): 20 (34cm.)
Lesbian mag obscene [Ontario court ruled February 16 that American lesbian magazine, Bad Attitude, obscene; charges had been laid against Glad Day Bookshop, Toronto; store fined $200; etc.].
P79 (v11n2)(March 10, 1993): 14 (22cm.)
Customs continues harassment [concerning seizures of shipments destined to Glad Day Bookshop, Toronto; reference also to the Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium court case, which is expected to take a considerable time].
P121 (v16n4)(June 10, 1998): 25 (14cm.)
Not a glad day [Glad Day, Toronto gay bookstore, charged with selling "pornographic video" not approved by Ontario Film Review Board; other details].
P145 (v19n4)(June 6, 2001): 27 (18cm.)
Glad Day's battle not going well [Toronto GLBT bookstore has for over a year been fighting charges brought by Ontario Film Review Board for not submitting video for approval; Glad Day is arguing that policy discriminates against distributors of videos for minorities; details].
P149 (v19n8)(Dec. 5, 2001): 26 (19cm.)
Glad Day gains allies [in fight against Ontario Film Review Board; details].
P150 (v20n1)(Jan. 30, 2002): 26 (17cm.)
Glad Day glad for help with court day [Canadian Civil Liberties Union granted intervenor status in Glad Day Bookshop's appeal of conviction on year 2000 charge of selling video not passed by Ontario Film Review Board; court to hear appeal at end of October; details].
P164 (v21n7)(Oct. 22, 2003): 25 (23cm.)
Canada's censors censored [report on "two landmark rulings," in which "censors were told that they're out of step with what Canadians actually consider obscene"; all 20 counts against Vancouver's Sweet Entertainment, a maker of heterosexual videos for the Internet, were dismissed, and Glad Day Bookshop won its case against Ontario Film Review Board over a porn film, Descent, which had not been sanctioned by the Board; other details].
P170 (v22n5)(July 21, 2004): 27 (22cm.)