Between 1968 and 1973 the association fought a string of
battles against censorship in Vancouver, including attempts by the city licensing inspector to shut down various local theatre productions, and attacks on the Georgia Straight (a popular alternative paper founded in 1967) for obscenity.
It was controversy at its finest, pitting members of the same professional network
against one another in an ideological
battle, and raising questions of feminism and
censorship that still resonate today.