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Monday, April 21
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Source: Canadian Press VANCOUVER — They've been bombed three times, received death threats and stood before the red-robed justices of the Supreme Court of Canada. No, Jim Deva and Bruce Smyth are not killers or terrorists. The soft-spoken Vancouver men sell books. And in some peoples' eyes, Deva says, that made the gay owners of Little Sister's Book & Art Emporium dangerous. "Because we were (openly gay) and we were very, very blatant about being open . . . we were threatening to homophobes," Deva says. Only two years after the store opened in 1983, the owners took on...
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