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
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
School Board Say They’re Reflecting the Wishes of the Populace; Facts
Suggest Otherwise.”
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,
See related article, titled “BC Court Redefines ‘Secular’ Schools: How
Book-Ban
Decision Opens Door to Religion,”
22, p. A1 (ref. from CBCA index).
Supreme
Court of Canada slated to hear June 12 (
p. A13)
“War over Words: It’s a
Sparked a Bitter
Values Clash in
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
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.
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
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,
Campbell, Colin.
“Lesbians on the
Loose.” Fuse [
“
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,
“considers the long history of censorship of sex-related publications
in
Lesbian Abstracts.
Carter, Julie H.
“
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,
against
“The Chill Factor: Artists Fight against ‘Unofficial Censorship’.”
Parallelogramme [
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
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 [
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
and Janine
Fuller.
(176 p.; ISBN 1573440205; 1573440191)
Fuller, Janine, and Blackley, Stuart.
Restricted
Entry: Censorship on Trial.
(216 p.; ISBN 0889740534) [2nd ed.;
(ISBN 0889740666)]
Concerns
Little Sister’s Book & Art Emporium,
encounters with Canada Customs. Issue went to Supreme Court of
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
June 30, 1995, p. C1.
Concerns Glad Day Bookshop, a
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 [
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
Hill, Lawrence.
“Parents’ Smear Campaign Scores Some Disturbing Victories.” Globe and
Mail, February 11, 1997, p. E1.
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,
(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.
(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.
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.
Lowes, Carol.
“Christian Parents Flee Public
Schools:
Board to Reconsider Pro-gay Books. Christianity Today 47(3) (March 2003):
23 (563 words)
MacDonald, Ingrid.
“Customary Bias:
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,
long-fought case against Canada Customs for seizures of books and videos.
Manguel, Alberto.
“Daring to Speak
One’s Name.” Index on
Censorship [
(Jan.-Feb. 1995): 16-23, 26-29.
Censorship and relationship to homosexual writers.
McFarlane, Courtnay.
“Censorship,
Passion & Identity.” Border/Lines
[
34-35.
“O
Oxford University Press decides not to publish Richard More’s Gay Ideas.
Pallante, Maria, and Tucker, Lee.
A
Ruling Inspired by
Lesbian and Gay
Publications in
Watch Free Expression Project, 1994. (11 p.)
“
[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
Rule, Jane.
Detained at Customs: Jane Rule Testifies at the Little Sister’s Trial. 2nd ed.;
(19 p.; ISBN 092099928X)
Concerning Little Sister’s Book & Art Emporium,
Russell, Jim.
“A Gaze Blank and Pitiless as the
Sun.” Fuse [
Christopher Lefler case,
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.”
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
[Metro
ed.], December 21, 2002, pp. A1, A10.
Ref.:
CBCA electronic index
James Chamberlain;
For a viewpoint in the gay press, see, e.g.,
Michelle Maloney Leonard,
“Unconfusing the
Kids: Why Not Teach Queer Culture in Schools?”
Xtra!
[
Shariff, Shaheen.
“Managing the Dilemma of Competing Rights: The Case of the Three Books.”
M.A. thesis,
(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.
(ISBN 0889740305)
Review: Cynthia Wright, Quill & Quire 57(10) (Oct. 1991): 31.
Taylor, Susan R.
“Gay and Lesbian
Pornography and the Obscenity Laws in
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;
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.
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 [
On the difficulties of publishing book on history of gay erotica.
What Right?: Graphic Interpretations against Censorship.
Edited by Robin
Fisher.
(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
Laid by
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).