[2] The bookstore was famously the plaintiff in Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v Canada, where it challenged Canada Customs' repeated decisions to block its shipments of erotic literature under customs regulations that bar "obscene materials" as a violation of free expression and equality rights.

Not to mention that five out of ten provinces (plus one of the two territories) explicitly forbid discrimination based on sexual orientation.Little Sister's filed their claim against the federal government in 1990 but the case stalled and was not heard by the Supreme Court of British Columbia until October 1994.

The case established that a Charter right to import expressive material unless the government proves it is obscene or otherwise illegal.

[3] Former manager Janine Fuller was also a coauthor with Stuart Blackley of the book Restricted Entry: Censorship on Trial, a non-fiction account of the Little Sister's battle, and wrote an introduction for Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada, an anthology of excerpts from some of the impounded works which was edited by Patrick Califia.

The book features contributions from a number of comic artists including Alison Bechdel and Marc Bell.