28 Jun 1985 A court heard yesterday that material on Aids and novels by Tennessee Williams were seized by customs
A customs officer detained a book from the United States about the Aids epidemic and novels by Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal and Christopher Isherwood in a raid on Gay’s the Word bookshop in April 1984, a court heard yesterday.
The officer, Mr David Odd, was giving evidence on the fourth day of committal proceedings in which eight directors and one staff member of Gay’s the Word bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, are charged with fraudulently conspiring to evade the prohibitions on the import of indecent or obscene material. Together or individually they face about 100 charges at North London Magistrates’ Court.
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