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Banned titles:
"The Little Red School Book" and "Portnoy’s Complaint" |
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Bookshops and Bookstalls |
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The history of these developments, and later blossoming of the issue and identity based movements, could be told in terms of bookshops. The iconic bookshop was The Red and the Black Bookshop (always referred to as ‘the Red and Black’ or ‘the R and B’). It was started by SDA in 1969. It reflected wide-ranging radical, liberal, humanist and new leftist ideas, and the counter-culture, as that developed. | |
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The ‘Red and Black’ was associated with the campus based movement through on-campus book stalls, initially ‘Zac’s bookstall’.
The Red and Black was prosecuted over ‘Lysistrata’, an Aubrey Beardsley poster.
The sale of the banned book Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth also led to prosecution.
In defiance of the ban, boxes of the book were taken to the UQ campus and sold.
Later The Little Red School Book (a booklet of advice on sex, contraception, rights, personal development and education) was banned and the bookshop was again prosecuted. |
Draft Resistors Union stand, 1971 |
Book table, outside main Refectory, UQ |
Book stalls were always a feature in the Refec area. Other radical groups, such as the Labor Club, ran them. Later, women's, environmentalist and Marxist groups ran book tables. Book stalls would often appear on the UQ campus, for the duration of the campaign, for example during the late seventies anti-uranium movement. |
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Hippies and air waves
Up the new channels
