Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium, also known as Little Sister's Bookstore, but usually called "Little Sister's," is an independent bookstore in the Davie Village / West End of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, a predominantly gay community. The bookstore opened in 1983.
The bookstore is famous for being embroiled in a legal battle with the Canada Border Services Agency over the importation of what the agency has labeled "obscene materials". These materials, nearly all dealing with male-male or female-female sexuality, are routinely seized at the border. The same publications, when destined for mainstream booksellers in the country, have often been delivered without delay or question.[1] Glad Day Bookshop, an LGBT bookstore in Toronto, has faced similar difficulties.
Its travails were fictionalized as a subplot of the film Better Than Chocolate. A feature length documentary film, Little Sister's vs. Big Brother (2002), has also been released about the bookstore.