January 30–31 Halifax GAE organized […]

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1979-01-30 – 1979-01-31

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January 30–31 Halifax GAE organized a picket of the Canada Customs office to protest the growth of censorship in Canada. The next day, GAE sponsored a public meeting on censorship, held at the Turret Gay Community Centre. Speakers at the meeting included Tom Burns, owner of the Alternate Bookstore, Alex Wilson of the Body Politic, and Lynn Murphy, a Dartmouth librarian.

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Dartmouth Alternate Book Shop The Turret Halifax

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Lynn Murphy Alex Wilson Tom Burns

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Canada Border Services Agency Gay Alliance for Equality, Gay Alliance for Equality

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The Body Politic

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Robin Metcalfe, "Demo Protests State Censors," Body Politic, no. 51 (1979), p. 15.Alan Adams, "GAE Demo," Dalhousie Gazette (Dalhousie Univ.), 1 February 1979, p. 3

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Alternate Book Shop

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