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October 4 Halifax Red Herring […]

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1978-10-04

Description

October 4 Halifax Red Herring Co-operative Bookstore was told by Canada Customs that lesbian books published by Diana Press in California were not permitted to enter Canada. The bookstore decided to reorder the nineteen books and threatened legal action to get them.

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Red Herring Cooperative BooksHalifax

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Diana PressCanada Border Services Agency

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Robin Metcalfe, "Customs Blocks Lesbian Books," Body Politic, no. 48 (1978), p. 10.M. Joanne Kellerman, "Censorship by Canada Customs," Ansul: Dalhousie Law Forum, 9, no. 4 (November 1978): 10Georgina Chambers, "Censored," Sisters' Lightship (Halifax), 1, no. 1 (December 1978): 9
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