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Don Wildmon referred to Xtra! in his mail posted above. See the following.

http://www.ccrl.ca/index.php?id=130
OF PRINTERS AND PRESS GANGS
Sean Murphy
Director, Western Region
Catholic Civil Rights League
"Hannon is a director of Pink Triangle Press, which publishes Toronto's Xtra!, Ottawa's Capital Xtra and Vancouver's Xtra West. He considers Canada's prohibition of child pornography a "foul", "stupid" and "absurd" law, and takes pleasure in being associated with John Robin Sharpe, who, at the time of Hannon's glowing reference to him as "that unsung hero of Canadian resistance",17 had been convicted for possession of child pornography and charged for sexual assault of a young boy;18 he has since been convicted. Hannon is still immensely proud of his Men Loving Boys Loving Men, which can be found on-line, "brought to you by The Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives"19 - into whose service Scott Brockie has been indefinitely conscripted by order of three learned superior court judges."

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/samesexrights/timeline_canada.html
("Same Sex Rights," "Canada Timeline," CBC News)
Jan. 5, 1978
"The Pink Triangle Press (now publisher of Xtra magazine) is charged with 'possession of obscene material for the purpose of distribution' and 'the use of mails for the purpose of transmitting anything that is obscene, indecent or scurrilous' for publishing an article titled 'Men Loving Boys Loving Men' in the Dec. 1977/Jan. 1978 issue of The Body Politic.
After almost six years in the courts, including two trials, the case is finally resolved when on Oct. 15, 1983 the deadline passes for the Crown to appeal the second court acquittal. (In the first trial, The Pink Triangle Press had also won an acquittal but upon appeal the Crown won a retrial.)
The case results in an important precedent. On June 15, 1982, Judge Thomas Mercer, the judge for the second trial, rules that the article 'does, in fact, advocate pedophilia,' but says, 'It is perfectly legal to advocate what in itself would be unacceptable to most Canadians.'