Court sides with gay bookstore.Vancouver's Little Sister's gay and lesbian bookstore has suffered "excessive and unnecessary prejudice" at the hands of Canadian customs officials, who since 1984 have seized more than 261 pieces of gay erotica erotica - pornography destined des·tine tr.v. des·tined, des·tin·ing, des·tines 1. To determine beforehand; preordain: a foolish scheme destined to fail; a film destined to become a classic. 2. for sale at the store. That was the finding of the Canadian supreme court, which ruled December 15 that the country's restrictions on pornography are legal but that customs officials have unfairly targeted gay material as opposed to heterosexual pornography. Justice Ian Binnie William Ian Corneil Binnie (born April 14, 1939) is a puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada. Binnie was born in Montreal, Quebec. He graduated from McGill University in 1960 and went on the study law at Cambridge University and the University of Toronto. wrote that "when customs officials prohibit and thereby censor lawful gay and lesbian erotica, they are making a statement about gay and lesbian culture, and the statement was reasonably interpreted [by Little Sister's] as demeaning de·mean 1 tr.v. de·meaned, de·mean·ing, de·means To conduct or behave (oneself) in a particular manner: demeaned themselves well in class. gay and lesbian values." |
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