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Lavender Menace

2026-07-14T12:41:04Z

Ross Burgess:

{{disambig}}
'''Lavender Menace''' could refer to:
*[[Lavender Menace (bookshop and archive)]] an LGBT archive and former bookshop in Edinburgh
*[[Lavender Menace (youth group)]] a former LGBT youth group in Dumfries and Galloway
*a group of lesbian radical feminists in New York.

Lavender Menace

2026-07-14T12:40:43Z

Ross Burgess:

Lavender Menace

2026-07-14T12:40:17Z

Ross Burgess: another use of the name

Lavender Menace (bookshop and archive)

2026-07-14T12:38:42Z

Ross Burgess:

[[File:LavenderMenace.png|thumb|logo for the Community Interest Company]]'''Lavender Menace''' is a former gay bookshop in [[Edinburgh]], now re-constituted as an archive, located at St Margaret’s House, 151 London Road, Edinburgh.

The original bookshop, in Forth Street, Edinburgh, opened in 1982.<ref>[https://www.gayinthe80s.com/2013/09/1982-bookshop-lavender-menace/ ''Gay in the 80s'']</ref><ref>[https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/scotland/articles/turning-the-page-the-radical-story-of-scotlands-first-lgbtq-bookshop Turning the Page: The Radical Story of Scotland’s First LGBTQ Bookshop]</ref>. It was set up by Sigrid Nielsen and Bob Orr and developed from the [[Open Gaze]] bookstall created by Bob Orr in 1976 as part of the [[Scottish Homosexual Rights Group]]’s Gay Information Centre in Broughton Street. Lavender Books was set up as a collective, and began selling lesbian and gay books and paraphernalia at conferences and marches across the UK between 1980 and 1981.<ref>[https://lavendermenace.org.uk/lgbt-bookselling-in-scotland "LGBT+ Bookselling in Scotland"] on the Lavender Menace website.</ref>

The current Lavender Menace company is "a Community Interest Company established to promote and benefit the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, non-binary, intersectional (LGBT+) community and their allies. Company Number SC663479."<ref>[https://lavendermenace.org.uk/become-a-menace Lavender Menace website]</ref>

In 2006, an exhibition entitled "Past Shelves: Histories of Queer Reading" was held in the Museum of Edinburgh, as a collaboration between the Museum and Lavender Menace.<ref>https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/14370/new-exhibition-explores-the-power-of-books-to-build-community</ref>

Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive and Blog appears on Facebook.<ref> https://www.facebook.com/lavendermenacereturns accessed 16 February 2023</ref>.

The name "Lavender Menace" had previously been used around 1970 by a group of lesbian radical feminists in New York.

"Lavender Menace" was also the name of [[Lavender Menace (youth group) |an LGBT youth project]] in [[Dumfries and Galloway]].

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Bookshops]]
[[Category:Edinburgh]]

Lavender Menace (bookshop and archive)

2026-07-14T12:37:48Z

Ross Burgess: another use of the name

[[File:LavenderMenace.png|thumb|logo for the Community Interest Company]]'''Lavender Menace''' is a former gay bookshop in [[Edinburgh]], now re-constituted as an archive, located at St Margaret’s House, 151 London Road, Edinburgh.

The original bookshop, in Forth Street, Edinburgh, opened in 1982.<ref>[https://www.gayinthe80s.com/2013/09/1982-bookshop-lavender-menace/ ''Gay in the 80s'']</ref><ref>[https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/scotland/articles/turning-the-page-the-radical-story-of-scotlands-first-lgbtq-bookshop Turning the Page: The Radical Story of Scotland’s First LGBTQ Bookshop]</ref>. It was set up by Sigrid Nielsen and Bob Orr and developed from the [[Open Gaze]] bookstall created by Bob Orr in 1976 as part of the [[Scottish Homosexual Rights Group]]’s Gay Information Centre in Broughton Street. Lavender Books was set up as a collective, and began selling lesbian and gay books and paraphernalia at conferences and marches across the UK between 1980 and 1981.<ref>[https://lavendermenace.org.uk/lgbt-bookselling-in-scotland "LGBT+ Bookselling in Scotland"] on the Lavender Menace website.</ref>

The current Lavender Menace company is "a Community Interest Company established to promote and benefit the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, non-binary, intersectional (LGBT+) community and their allies. Company Number SC663479."<ref>[https://lavendermenace.org.uk/become-a-menace Lavender Menace website]</ref>

In 2006, an exhibition entitled "Past Shelves: Histories of Queer Reading" was held in the Museum of Edinburgh, as a collaboration between the Museum and Lavender Menace.<ref>https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/14370/new-exhibition-explores-the-power-of-books-to-build-community</ref>

Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive and Blog appears on Facebook.<ref> https://www.facebook.com/lavendermenacereturns accessed 16 February 2023</ref>.

The name "Lavender Menace" had previously been used around 1970 by a group of lesbian radical feminists in New York.

Lavender Menace was also the name of [[Lavender Menace (youth group) |an LGBT youth project]] in [[Dumfries and Galloway]].

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Bookshops]]
[[Category:Edinburgh]]

Lavender Menace (youth group)

2026-07-14T12:36:52Z

Ross Burgess:

[[File:Lavender Menace.jpg|thumb|Lavender Menace logo]]'''Lavender Menace''' is a youth-led voluntary project running social and cultural events for LGBT+ people in [[Dumfries and Galloway]].<ref>''[[D&G Queerier]]'' issue 2 (2 September 2018) page 3.</ref>

The name "Lavender Menace" had previously been used around 1970 by a group of lesbian radical feminists in New York.

There is a [[Lavender Menace (bookshop and archive)|Lavender Menace archive and former bookshop]] in Edinburgh.

==External links==
*[https://www.facebook.com/lavendermenacedumfries/ Lavender Menace facebook page]
*The ''D&G Queerier'' article also mentions another facebook page, www.facebook.com/queersofthesouth, but this appears not to exist.

==References==
<references/>
[[Category:Youth groups]]
[[Category:Dumfries & Galloway]]

Lavender Menace (bookshop and archive)

2026-07-14T12:35:32Z

Ross Burgess:

[[File:LavenderMenace.png|thumb|logo for the Community Interest Company]]'''Lavender Menace''' is a former gay bookshop in [[Edinburgh]], now re-constituted as an archive, located at St Margaret’s House, 151 London Road, Edinburgh.

The original bookshop, in Forth Street, Edinburgh, opened in 1982.<ref>[https://www.gayinthe80s.com/2013/09/1982-bookshop-lavender-menace/ ''Gay in the 80s'']</ref><ref>[https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/scotland/articles/turning-the-page-the-radical-story-of-scotlands-first-lgbtq-bookshop Turning the Page: The Radical Story of Scotland’s First LGBTQ Bookshop]</ref>. It was set up by Sigrid Nielsen and Bob Orr and developed from the [[Open Gaze]] bookstall created by Bob Orr in 1976 as part of the [[Scottish Homosexual Rights Group]]’s Gay Information Centre in Broughton Street. Lavender Books was set up as a collective, and began selling lesbian and gay books and paraphernalia at conferences and marches across the UK between 1980 and 1981.<ref>[https://lavendermenace.org.uk/lgbt-bookselling-in-scotland "LGBT+ Bookselling in Scotland"] on the Lavender Menace website.</ref>

The current Lavender Menace company is "a Community Interest Company established to promote and benefit the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, non-binary, intersectional (LGBT+) community and their allies. Company Number SC663479."<ref>[https://lavendermenace.org.uk/become-a-menace Lavender Menace website]</ref>

In 2006, an exhibition entitled "Past Shelves: Histories of Queer Reading" was held in the Museum of Edinburgh, as a collaboration between the Museum and Lavender Menace.<ref>https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/14370/new-exhibition-explores-the-power-of-books-to-build-community</ref>

Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive and Blog appears on Facebook.<ref> https://www.facebook.com/lavendermenacereturns accessed 16 February 2023</ref>.

Lavender Menace was also the name of [[Lavender Menace (youth group) |an LGBT youth project]] in [[Dumfries and Galloway]].

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Bookshops]]
[[Category:Edinburgh]]

Lavender Menace

2026-07-14T12:32:27Z

Ross Burgess:

{{disambig}}
'''Lavender Menace''' could refer to:
*[[Lavender Menace (bookshop and archive)]] aN LGBT archive and former bookshop in Edinburgh
*[[Lavender Menace (youth group)]] a former LGBT youth group in Dumfries and Galloway

Lavender Menace

2026-07-14T12:30:48Z

Ross Burgess: Removed redirect to Lavender Menace (youth group)

'''Lavender Menace''' could refer to:
*[[Lavender Menace (bookshop and archive)]] aN LGBT archive and former bookshop in Edinburgh
*[[Lavender Menace (youth group)]] a former LGBT youth group in Dumfries and Galloway

Lavender Menace

2026-07-14T12:13:36Z

Ross Burgess: Ross Burgess moved page Lavender Menace to Lavender Menace (youth group)

#REDIRECT [[Lavender Menace (youth group)]]

Lavender Menace (youth group)

2026-07-14T12:13:36Z

Ross Burgess: Ross Burgess moved page Lavender Menace to Lavender Menace (youth group)

[[File:Lavender Menace.jpg|thumb|Lavender Menace logo]]'''Lavender Menace''' is a youth-led voluntary project running social and cultural events for LGBT+ people in [[Dumfries and Galloway]].<ref>''[[D&G Queerier]]'' issue 2 (2 September 2018) page 3.</ref>

The name "Lavender Menace" had previously been used around 1970 by a group of lesbian radical feminists in New York.

There is a [[Lavender Menace (bookshop and archive)|Lavender Menace bookshop]] in Edinburgh.

==External links==
*[https://www.facebook.com/lavendermenacedumfries/ Lavender Menace facebook page]
*The ''D&G Queerier'' article also mentions another facebook page, www.facebook.com/queersofthesouth, but this appears not to exist.

==References==
<references/>
[[Category:Youth groups]]
[[Category:Dumfries & Galloway]]

Gay, Lesbian and Mensan

2026-07-14T12:02:22Z

Ross Burgess: /* External links */ Corrected dead link

[[File:Glamlogo.png|thumb|The GLAM logo]]'''GLAM (Gay, Lesbian and Mensan)''' was a group for UK members of Mensa, the high-IQ society.

It was originally the UK Mensa Gaysig. However following a ruling by British Mensa that all official Sigs (Special Interest Groups) had to have their membership lists controlled by British Mensa headquarters, the group was forced to become independent to safeguard the privacy of its members.

GLAM organised a Sunday lunch once a month in a member's home, and an evening meal once a month in a London restaurant. There were occasional weekends away and other events.

During the 1990s the group published three issues of ''Sticky Fingers'', a journal of erotic fiction written by members.

==External links==

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20230106121646/https://foxearth.net/glam/ GLAM website (archived by the Web Archive)]

[[Category:Groups]]
[[Category:Former Consortium members]]
[[Category:ILGA members]]

Gay, Lesbian and Mensan

2026-07-14T11:57:52Z

Ross Burgess: no longer opertional

[[File:Glamlogo.png|thumb|The GLAM logo]]'''GLAM (Gay, Lesbian and Mensan)''' was a group for UK members of Mensa, the high-IQ society.

It was originally the UK Mensa Gaysig. However following a ruling by British Mensa that all official Sigs (Special Interest Groups) had to have their membership lists controlled by British Mensa headquarters, the group was forced to become independent to safeguard the privacy of its members.

GLAM organised a Sunday lunch once a month in a member's home, and an evening meal once a month in a London restaurant. There were occasional weekends away and other events.

During the 1990s the group published three issues of ''Sticky Fingers'', a journal of erotic fiction written by members.

==External links==

*[http://www.glam.org.uk GLAM website]

[[Category:Groups]]
[[Category:Former Consortium members]]
[[Category:ILGA members]]

CHERT

2026-07-14T11:53:48Z

Ross Burgess: /* Trustees */

[[File:Chert.png|thumb|CHERT logo]]The '''CHE Research Trust''' ('''CHERT''') is the name for a new Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) set up by [[CHE]] in 2021. It was registered as a charity on 11 March 2022. <ref> https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/5181452/governance </ref>

==Aims==

The objects of the CIO are:
#To advance education for the public benefit about the history of the struggle for LGBT+ rights, including but not limited to the origins and history of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality and by contributing to the safe preservation of LGBT+ archives.
#To promote equality and diversity by encouraging a deeper understanding of the causes and progress of changes in public acceptance of LGBT+ rights.<ref>[https://chert.org.uk/ CHERT website].</ref>

==Trustees==
The board of 6 Trustees was listed on the Charity Commission website in March 2022. The Trustees were at that time as follows:

*[[Peter Burman]] (Chair)<ref> ceased to be a Trustee in 2025 </ref>
*[[Ross Burgess]]<ref> ceased to be a Trustee in 2025 </ref>
*[[Mark Delacour]] <ref> ceased to be a Trustee in April 2023 </ref>
*[[Simon Ives]]
*[[Glenys Parry]]
*[[Rainer Schulze]]

==References==
<references />

== External links ==
http://www.chert.org.uk/

[[Category:Charities]]

Ross Burgess

2026-07-14T11:46:06Z

Ross Burgess: /* External links */ Corrected dead link

[[File:Ross Burgess Nov 2013.JPG|thumb|Ross Burgess, November 2013]]'''Ross Burgess''', born 1944, is a former IT consultant (now retired). He was brought up in [[Hastings]] and studied at [[Oriel College, Oxford]] and the [[Open University]].

In 1966, while still an undergraduate, he stood as [[Liberal Party|Liberal]] parliamentary candidate for [[Mitcham]].<ref>''The Times Guide to the House of Commons 1966'', page 153</ref>

He has been active in LGBT organisations for many years. He founded the [[Tunbridge Wells CHE Group]] in 1972 and is a former Executive Committee member of CHE ([[Campaign for Homosexual Equality]]), Trustee of CHERT ([[CHE Research Trust]]), and Secretary of [[Croydon Area Gay Society|CAGS]]. From 2008 to 2011 he was a Board Trustee of the [[LGBT Consortium]].

He was copy editor of <cite>[[Out of the Shadows (book)|Out of the Shadows]]</cite> (2010) and in the past has written books and articles on IT-related subjects.

He edited ''[[Diverse Performances: Masculinities and the Victorian Stage]]'' by the late [[David Haldane Lawrence]], and is commissioning editor for ''[[Amiable Warriors]]'', both published by [[Paradise Press]]. Two of his stories are included in the anthology ''[[A Boxful of Ideas]]'' for which he did the typography.

He has been webmaster for a number of organisations, including:

*[[SLAGO]]
*[[CAGS]]
*[[CHE]]
*[[Gay, Lesbian and Mensan]] (GLAM).

In 2002 Ross Burgess and [[Roger Burg]] had a [[London Registered Partnership]], followed in 2005 by a [[civil partnership]], which they converted to a marriage in 2015. Roger died in February 2017.

On 8 June 2019 Ross Burgess and [[Peter Burman]] were married in [[Falkland]], Fife, with an Affirmation of Vows a week later in the Unitarian Church, Croydon.

==External links==
*[https://peterandross.uk/ross-cv.shtml Brief CV]

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Campaigners]]
[[Category:1944 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Charity trustees]]

Ross Burgess

2026-07-14T11:42:40Z

Ross Burgess:

[[File:Ross Burgess Nov 2013.JPG|thumb|Ross Burgess, November 2013]]'''Ross Burgess''', born 1944, is a former IT consultant (now retired). He was brought up in [[Hastings]] and studied at [[Oriel College, Oxford]] and the [[Open University]].

In 1966, while still an undergraduate, he stood as [[Liberal Party|Liberal]] parliamentary candidate for [[Mitcham]].<ref>''The Times Guide to the House of Commons 1966'', page 153</ref>

He has been active in LGBT organisations for many years. He founded the [[Tunbridge Wells CHE Group]] in 1972 and is a former Executive Committee member of CHE ([[Campaign for Homosexual Equality]]), Trustee of CHERT ([[CHE Research Trust]]), and Secretary of [[Croydon Area Gay Society|CAGS]]. From 2008 to 2011 he was a Board Trustee of the [[LGBT Consortium]].

He was copy editor of <cite>[[Out of the Shadows (book)|Out of the Shadows]]</cite> (2010) and in the past has written books and articles on IT-related subjects.

He edited ''[[Diverse Performances: Masculinities and the Victorian Stage]]'' by the late [[David Haldane Lawrence]], and is commissioning editor for ''[[Amiable Warriors]]'', both published by [[Paradise Press]]. Two of his stories are included in the anthology ''[[A Boxful of Ideas]]'' for which he did the typography.

He has been webmaster for a number of organisations, including:

*[[SLAGO]]
*[[CAGS]]
*[[CHE]]
*[[Gay, Lesbian and Mensan]] (GLAM).

In 2002 Ross Burgess and [[Roger Burg]] had a [[London Registered Partnership]], followed in 2005 by a [[civil partnership]], which they converted to a marriage in 2015. Roger died in February 2017.

On 8 June 2019 Ross Burgess and [[Peter Burman]] were married in [[Falkland]], Fife, with an Affirmation of Vows a week later in the Unitarian Church, Croydon.

==External links==
*[http://www.foxearth.net/cv.shtml Brief CV]

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Campaigners]]
[[Category:1944 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Charity trustees]]

User:Ross Burgess

2026-07-14T11:37:19Z

Ross Burgess: Updating

[[File:Ross Burgess 2012.jpg|thumb|Ross Burgess, October 2012]]I founded the [[Tunbridge Wells CHE group]] many years ago, I've been active for a long time in [[Croydon Area Gay Society]] (CAGS), and helped to edit <cite>[[Out of the Shadows (book)|Out of the Shadows]]</cite>, a book about gay groups in London. I was an Executive Committee member of [[Campaign for Homosexual Equality|CHE]] and then a Trustee of the [[CHE Research Trust]]. For three years I was a Trustee of the [[LGBT Consortium]]. My partner (Roger) and I formed a [[civil partnership]] on the first day the law allowed in England, subsequently converted it to marriage. Following Roger's death, I married Peter Burman. We now live mainly in [[Edinburgh]].

I've been editing on [http://www.en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] for quite a while. I joined this Wiki in June 2011 and have been one of the main contributors since then.

There's an article about me on this Wiki: see [[Ross Burgess]].

Lavender Menace (bookshop and archive)

2026-07-14T11:19:59Z

Ross Burgess: 2026 exhibition

[[File:LavenderMenace.png|thumb|logo for the Community Interest Company]]'''Lavender Menace''' is a former gay bookshop in [[Edinburgh]], now re-constituted as an archive, located at St Margaret’s House, 151 London Road, Edinburgh.

The original bookshop, in Forth Street, Edinburgh, opened in 1982.<ref>[https://www.gayinthe80s.com/2013/09/1982-bookshop-lavender-menace/ ''Gay in the 80s'']</ref><ref>[https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/scotland/articles/turning-the-page-the-radical-story-of-scotlands-first-lgbtq-bookshop Turning the Page: The Radical Story of Scotland’s First LGBTQ Bookshop]</ref>. It was set up by Sigrid Nielsen and Bob Orr and developed from the [[Open Gaze]] bookstall created by Bob Orr in 1976 as part of the [[Scottish Homosexual Rights Group]]’s Gay Information Centre in Broughton Street. Lavender Books was set up as a collective, and began selling lesbian and gay books and paraphernalia at conferences and marches across the UK between 1980 and 1981.<ref>[https://lavendermenace.org.uk/lgbt-bookselling-in-scotland "LGBT+ Bookselling in Scotland"] on the Lavender Menace website.</ref>

The current Lavender Menace company is "a Community Interest Company established to promote and benefit the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, non-binary, intersectional (LGBT+) community and their allies. Company Number SC663479."<ref>[https://lavendermenace.org.uk/become-a-menace Lavender Menace website]</ref>

In 2006, an exhibition entitled "Past Shelves: Histories of Queer Reading" was held in the Museum of Edinburgh, as a collaboration between the Museum and Lavender Menace.<ref>https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/14370/new-exhibition-explores-the-power-of-books-to-build-community</ref>

Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive and Blog appears on Facebook.<ref> https://www.facebook.com/lavendermenacereturns accessed 16 February 2023</ref>.

[[Lavender Menace]] was also the name of an LGBT youth project in [[Dumfries and Galloway]].

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Bookshops]]
[[Category:Edinburgh]]

Lavender Menace (bookshop and archive)

2026-07-14T11:10:36Z

Ross Burgess:

[[File:LavenderMenace.png|thumb|logo for the Community Interest Company]]'''Lavender Menace''' is a former gay bookshop in [[Edinburgh]], now re-constituted as an archive, located at St Margaret’s House, 151 London Road, Edinburgh.

The original bookshop, in Forth Street, Edinburgh, opened in 1982.<ref>[https://www.gayinthe80s.com/2013/09/1982-bookshop-lavender-menace/ ''Gay in the 80s'']</ref><ref>[https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/scotland/articles/turning-the-page-the-radical-story-of-scotlands-first-lgbtq-bookshop Turning the Page: The Radical Story of Scotland’s First LGBTQ Bookshop]</ref>. It was set up by Sigrid Nielsen and Bob Orr and developed from the [[Open Gaze]] bookstall created by Bob Orr in 1976 as part of the [[Scottish Homosexual Rights Group]]’s Gay Information Centre in Broughton Street. Lavender Books was set up as a collective, and began selling lesbian and gay books and paraphernalia at conferences and marches across the UK between 1980 and 1981.<ref>[https://lavendermenace.org.uk/lgbt-bookselling-in-scotland "LGBT+ Bookselling in Scotland"] on the Lavender Menace website.</ref>

The current Lavender Menace company is "a Community Interest Company established to promote and benefit the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, non-binary, intersectional (LGBT+) community and their allies. Company Number SC663479."<ref>[https://lavendermenace.org.uk/become-a-menace Lavender Menace website]</ref>

Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive and Blog appears on Facebook.<ref> https://www.facebook.com/lavendermenacereturns accessed 16 February 2023 </ref>.

[[Lavender Menace]] was also the name of an LGBT youth project in [[Dumfries and Galloway]].

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Bookshops]]
[[Category:Edinburgh]]

Lavender Menace (bookshop and archive)

2026-07-14T11:10:00Z

Ross Burgess: Re-working

[[File:LavenderMenace.png|thumb|logo for the Community Interest Company]]'''Lavender Menace''' is a former gay bookshop in [[Edinburgh]], now re-constituted as an archive, located at St Margaret’s House, 151 London Road, Edinburgh.

The original bookshop, in Forth Street, Edinburgh, opened in 1982.<ref>[https://www.gayinthe80s.com/2013/09/1982-bookshop-lavender-menace/ ''Gay in the 80s'']</ref><ref>[https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/scotland/articles/turning-the-page-the-radical-story-of-scotlands-first-lgbtq-bookshop Turning the Page: The Radical Story of Scotland’s First LGBTQ Bookshop]</ref>. It was set up by Sigrid Nielsen and Bob Orr and developed from the [[Open Gaze]] bookstall created by Bob Orr in 1976 as part of the [[Scottish Homosexual Rights Group]]’s Gay Information Centre in Broughton Street. Lavender Books was set up as a collective, and began selling lesbian and gay books and paraphernalia at conferences and marches across the UK between 1980 and 1981.<ref>[https://lavendermenace.org.uk/lgbt-bookselling-in-scotland "LGBT+ Bookselling in Scotland"] on the Lavender Menace website.</ref>

The current Lavender Menace company is "a Community Interest Company established to promote and benefit the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, non-binary, intersectional (LGBT+) community and their allies. Company Number SC663479."<ref>[https://lavendermenace.org.uk/become-a-menace Lavender Menace website]</ref>

Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive and Blog appears on Facebook <ref> https://www.facebook.com/lavendermenacereturns accessed 16 February 2023 </ref>.

[[Lavender Menace]] was also the name of an LGBT youth project in [[Dumfries and Galloway]].

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Bookshops]]
[[Category:Edinburgh]]

Lavender Menace (bookshop and archive)

2026-07-14T11:07:29Z

Ross Burgess:

[[File:LavenderMenace.png|thumb|logo for the Community Interest Company]]'''Lavender Menace''' is a former gay bookshop in [[Edinburgh]], now re-constituted as an archive, located at St Margaret’s House, 151 London Road, Edinburgh. The original bookshop was in Forth Street, [[Edinburgh]] and opened in 1982.<ref>[https://www.gayinthe80s.com/2013/09/1982-bookshop-lavender-menace/ ''Gay in the 80s'']</ref><ref>[https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/scotland/articles/turning-the-page-the-radical-story-of-scotlands-first-lgbtq-bookshop Turning the Page: The Radical Story of Scotland’s First LGBTQ Bookshop]</ref>.
The original bookshop was set up by Sigrid Nielsen and Bob Orr and developed from the [[Open Gaze]] bookstall created by Bob Orr in 1976 as part of the [[Scottish Homosexual Rights Group]]’s Gay Information Centre in Broughton Street. Lavender Books was set up as a collective, and began selling lesbian and gay books and paraphernalia at conferences and marches across the UK between 1980 and 1981.<ref>[https://lavendermenace.org.uk/lgbt-bookselling-in-scotland "LGBT+ Bookselling in Scotland"] on the Lavender Menace website.</ref> In 1982 the bookshop was established in Forth Street, Edinburgh.

The current Lavender Menace company is "a Community Interest Company established to promote and benefit the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, non-binary, intersectional (LGBT+) community and their allies. Company Number SC663479."<ref>[https://lavendermenace.org.uk/become-a-menace Lavender Menace website]</ref>

Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive and Blog appears on Facebook <ref> https://www.facebook.com/lavendermenacereturns accessed 16 February 2023 </ref>.

[[Lavender Menace]] was also the name of an LGBT youth project in [[Dumfries and Galloway]].

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Bookshops]]
[[Category:Edinburgh]]

Scottish Minorities Group

2026-07-14T11:03:29Z

Ross Burgess: Text replacement - "Lavender Menace (bookshop)" to "Lavender Menace (bookshop and archive)"

The '''Scottish Minorities Group''' was a gay campaigning group in Scotland, founded in January 1969 by [[Ian Dunn]] in [[Glasgow]].

SMG meetings moved to the basement of the Catholic Chaplaincy in Edinburgh in August 1969. A monthly newsletter, SMG News, was started in January 1971. In the same year the group organised the Cobweb disco, which was Scotland's first gay disco, and the SMG Glasgow Women's Group was launched along with its magazine <cite>[[Gayzette]]</cite> <ref> Coming Oot! A Fabulous History of Gay Scotland BBC TV 30 November 2015 </ref>.

In 1972, SMG started the Edinburgh Gay Switchboard. In December 1974, SMG organised the [[International Gay Rights Congress]] in Edinburgh.<ref>[[Bob Cant]] and Susan Hemmings, ''Radical Records: Thirty Years of Lesbian and Gay History, 1957-1987'', Routledge, 1988, Page 25</ref>
Around 400 people attended the event and it led to the setting up of the [[International Gay Association]] in 1978. At the end of 1974 premises at Broughton Street, Edinburgh were purchased and the SMG Information Centre opened there in 1975.In 1976 SMG made a TV documentary.

In 1977, the [[Glasgow Gay Centre]] was opened in Sauchiehall Street. In 1978, <cite>[[SMG News]]</cite> became <cite>[[Gay Scotland]]</cite> and in October SMG changed its name to the '''Scottish Homosexual Rights Group''' ('''SHRG'''). In 1980 the [[Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980]] partially decriminalised gay sex between men over 21. This allowed a commercial scene to develop and [[Bennets Nightclub]] opened in Glasgow in 1981. [[Lavender Menace (bookshop and archive)|Lavender Menace bookshop]] a lesbian and gay bookshop in [[Edinburgh]] was opened by the [[SHRG]] in 1982.
At its peak in 1982, SHRG had 1200 members. However, the Glasgow Gay Centre closed in 1982. In 1992, SHRG changed its name to '''Outright Scotland'''.

By 2006, according to the [[Equality Network]] website, Outright Scotland was "currently not an active organisation."<ref>http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hamamelis/RIP-ISPrivate/IDArc/OutS/OutrightScotland.htm</ref>

==References==

Partly based on a Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outright_Scotland

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Edinburgh

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[[File:Edinburgh from Calton Hill with Dugald Stewart Monument 3.JPG|thumb|Edinburgh from Calton Hill with the Dugald Stewart Monument]]'''Edinburgh''' is the capital of [[Scotland]] and the second-largest city in Scotland (after [[Glasgow]]).

Before 1975, Edinburgh was a Royal Burgh within the county of [[Midlothian]]. Between 1975 and 1996 it was part of the [[Lothian]] region. Since the introduction of single-tier local government throughout Scotland in 1996, the City of Edinburgh has been a unitary authority. Edinburgh is now the home of the devolved Scottish Government and Scottish Parliament.

==LGBT History==
The city's first gay night, [[Cobweb Disco]], was held in 1971.<ref>[https://www.lgbthistory.org.uk/media/1766/timeline-poster.pdf LGBT Timeline Poster]</ref>

The first International Gay Rights Congress was held in Edinburgh in 1974.

In the 1980s [[Edinburgh and The Lothians lesbian and Gay Youth Movement]] provided social activities and support for young people under 26. The group met at the LGBT bookshop, [[Lavender Menace (bookshop and archive)|Lavender Menace]].

In 1985 60% of drug injecting addicts in Edinburgh were found to be [[HIV]] positive. This led to the city being termed the HIV capital of Europe. As a result hostility to gay men increased in Edinburgh <ref> Coming Oot! A Fabulous History of Gay Scotland BBC TV 30 November 2015 </ref>.

[[Remember When]] was an oral and community history project documenting the lives and achievements of Edinburgh's LGBT people, past and present.<ref>http://livingmemory.org.uk/rememberwhen/</ref>

The City of City of Edinburgh Council, Equalities Network is a former member of the [[LGBT Consortium]]:
:"City of Edinburgh Council Equality Unit support the Council in the implentation of its strategy of mainstreaming equalities issues. They aim to engage equalities groups in Council decision-making by supporting the work of 5 equality forums, including one for LGBT people."<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20120826095236/http://www.lgbtconsortium.org.uk/directory/city_edinburgh_council_equalities_network</ref>

Pride marches (currently [[Pride Scotia]]) have been held in Edinburgh since 1994.

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Lavender Menace (youth group)

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[[File:Lavender Menace.jpg|thumb|Lavender Menace logo]]'''Lavender Menace''' is a youth-led voluntary project running social and cultural events for LGBT+ people in [[Dumfries and Galloway]].<ref>''[[D&G Queerier]]'' issue 2 (2 September 2018) page 3.</ref>

The name "Lavender Menace" had previously been used around 1970 by a group of lesbian radical feminists in New York.

There is a [[Lavender Menace (bookshop and archive)|Lavender Menace bookshop]] in Edinburgh.

==External links==
*[https://www.facebook.com/lavendermenacedumfries/ Lavender Menace facebook page]
*The ''D&G Queerier'' article also mentions another facebook page, www.facebook.com/queersofthesouth, but this appears not to exist.

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Category Is Books

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'''Category Is Books''' is an independent LGBTQIA+ bookshop in [[Glasgow]].

It was established by Charlotte and Fionn Duffy-Scott in September 2018.<ref>"Southside LGBT+ bookshop celebrates 'incredible' first year", [https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/17979942.southside-lgbt-bookshop-celebrates-incredible-first-year ''Glasgow Times'']</ref><ref>"In conversation with Glasgow's first LGBTQ+ bookshop" [https://glasgowguardian.co.uk/2019/02/27/in-conversation-with-glasgows-first-lgbtq-bookshop ''Glasgow Guardian'', ]</ref>

==See also==
*[[Gay's the Word bookshop]]
*[[Lavender Menace (bookshop and archive)]]

==External links==
*[https://www.categoryisbooks.com/ Official website]

==References==
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Lavender Menace (bookshop)

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[[File:LavenderMenace.png|thumb|logo for the Community Interest Company]]'''Lavender Menace''' is a gay bookshop in St Margaret’s House, 151 London Road, [[Edinburgh]]. The original bookshop was in Forth Street, [[Edinburgh]] and opened in 1982.<ref>[https://www.gayinthe80s.com/2013/09/1982-bookshop-lavender-menace/ ''Gay in the 80s'']</ref><ref>[https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/scotland/articles/turning-the-page-the-radical-story-of-scotlands-first-lgbtq-bookshop Turning the Page: The Radical Story of Scotland’s First LGBTQ Bookshop]</ref>.
The original bookshop was set up by Sigrid Nielsen and Bob Orr and developed from the [[Open Gaze]] bookstall created by Bob Orr in 1976 as part of the [[Scottish Homosexual Rights Group]]’s Gay Information Centre in Broughton Street. Lavender Books was set up as a collective, and began selling lesbian and gay books and paraphernalia at conferences and marches across the UK between 1980 and 1981.<ref>[https://lavendermenace.org.uk/lgbt-bookselling-in-scotland "LGBT+ Bookselling in Scotland"] on the Lavender Menace website.</ref> In 1982 the bookshop was established in Forth Street, Edinburgh.

The current Lavender Menace company is "a Community Interest Company established to promote and benefit the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, non-binary, intersectional (LGBT+) community and their allies. Company Number SC663479."<ref>[https://lavendermenace.org.uk/become-a-menace Lavender Menace website]</ref>

Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive and Blog appears on Facebook <ref> https://www.facebook.com/lavendermenacereturns accessed 16 February 2023 </ref>.

[[Lavender Menace]] was also the name of an LGBT youth project in [[Dumfries and Galloway]].

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Building Equality

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[[File:BuildingEquality.png|thumb|Building Equality logo]]'''Building Equality''' is an alliance of construction consultants, engineers, developers, contractors, and institutions who are passionate about working together and harnessing our collective power to drive LGBTQ+ inclusion in the construction, engineering and built environment industry.

==External links==
*[https://www.buildingequalityuk.com/ Website]

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[[Bilding Equality]] log. From its website.
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Lavender Menace (bookshop and archive)

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[[File:LavenderMenace.png|thumb|logo for the Community Interest Company]]'''Lavender Menace''' was a gay bookshop in [[Edinburgh]] which opened in 1982.<ref>[https://www.gayinthe80s.com/2013/09/1982-bookshop-lavender-menace/ ''Gay in the 80s'']</ref><ref>[https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/scotland/articles/turning-the-page-the-radical-story-of-scotlands-first-lgbtq-bookshop Turning the Page: The Radical Story of Scotland’s First LGBTQ Bookshop]</ref> It was set up by [[Sigrid Nielsen]] and [[Bob Orr]]
and developed from the [[Open Gaze]] boookstall created by Bob Orr in 1976 as part of the [[Scottish Homosexual Rights Group]]’s Gay Information Centre in Broughton Street. Lavender Books was set up as a collective, and began selling lesbian and gay books and paraphernalia at conferences and marches across the UK between 1980 and 1981.<ref>[https://lavendermenace.org.uk/lgbt-bookselling-in-scotland "LGBT+ Bookselling in Scotland"] on the Lavender Menace website.</ref>

The current Lavender Menace company is "a Community Interest Company established to promote and benefit the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, non-binary, intersectional (LGBT+) community and their allies. Company Number SC663479."<ref>[https://lavendermenace.org.uk/become-a-menace Lavender Menace website]</ref>

Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive and Blog appears on Facebook <ref> https://www.facebook.com/lavendermenacereturns accessed 16 February 2023 </ref>.

[[Lavender Menace]] was also the name of an LGBT youth project in [[Dumfries and Galloway]].

==References==
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[[Category:Bookshops]]
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Current [[Lavender Menace (bookshop)]] logo.

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Lavender Menace (bookshop and archive)

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Ross Burgess:

'''Lavender Menace''' was a gay bookshop in [[Edinburgh]] which opened in 1982.<ref>[https://www.gayinthe80s.com/2013/09/1982-bookshop-lavender-menace/ ''Gay in the 80s'']</ref><ref>[https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/scotland/articles/turning-the-page-the-radical-story-of-scotlands-first-lgbtq-bookshop Turning the Page: The Radical Story of Scotland’s First LGBTQ Bookshop]</ref> It was set up by [[Sigrid Nielsen]] and [[Bob Orr]]
and developed from the [[Open Gaze]] boookstall created by Bob Orr in 1976 as part of the [[Scottish Homosexual Rights Group]]’s Gay Information Centre in Broughton Street. Lavender Books was set up as a collective, and began selling lesbian and gay books and paraphernalia at conferences and marches across the UK between 1980 and 1981.<ref>[https://lavendermenace.org.uk/lgbt-bookselling-in-scotland "LGBT+ Bookselling in Scotland"] on the Lavender Menace website.</ref>

The current Lavender Menace company is "a Community Interest Company established to promote and benefit the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, non-binary, intersectional (LGBT+) community and their allies. Company Number SC663479."<ref>[https://lavendermenace.org.uk/become-a-menace Lavender Menace website]</ref>

Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive and Blog appears on Facebook <ref> https://www.facebook.com/lavendermenacereturns accessed 16 February 2023 </ref>.

[[Lavender Menace]] was also the name of an LGBT youth project in [[Dumfries and Galloway]].

==References==
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[[Category:Bookshops]]
[[Category:Edinburgh]]

Lavender Menace (youth group)

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[[File:Lavender Menace.jpg|thumb|Lavender Menace logo]]'''Lavender Menace''' is a youth-led voluntary project running social and cultural events for LGBT+ people in [[Dumfries and Galloway]].<ref>''[[D&G Queerier]]'' issue 2 (2 September 2018) page 3.</ref>

The name "Lavender Menace" had previously been used around 1970 by a group lf lesbian radical feminists in New York.

There was a [[Lavender Menace (bookshop)|Lavender Menace bookshop]] in Edinburgh in the 1980s.

==External links==
*[https://www.facebook.com/lavendermenacedumfries/ Lavender Menace facebook page]
*The ''D&G Queerier'' article also mentions another facebook page, www.facebook.com/queersofthesouth, but this appears not to exist.

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SOGIESC

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[[File:IOM-SOGIESC.png|thumb|SOGIESC logo on the IOM website]]'''SOGIESC''' is an acronym for "sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics", used for example by the IOM (International Orgamizaation for Migration).<ref>[https://www.iom.int/sites/g/files/tmzbdl486/files/documents/SOGIESC-LGBTIQ-Messages-for-Pre-Departure-Orientation-Curriculums.pdf SOGIESC page] on the IOM website.</ref>

==References==
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IOM [[SOGIESC]] logo. From [https://www.iom.int/sites/g/files/tmzbdl486/files/documents/SOGIESC-LGBTIQ-Messages-for-Pre-Departure-Orientation-Curriculums.pdf the IOM website]

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SOGIESC

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'''SOGIESC''' is an acronym for "sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics", used for example by the IOM (International Orgamizaation for Migration).<ref>[https://www.iom.int/sites/g/files/tmzbdl486/files/documents/SOGIESC-LGBTIQ-Messages-for-Pre-Departure-Orientation-Curriculums.pdf SOGIESC page] on the IOM website.</ref>

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Category:Bookshops

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To be added (from Wikipedia):
*[[Common Press]]
*[[Paned o Gê, Cardiff]]
*[[Shelf Life, Cardiff]]
*[[Proud Geek, Birmingham]]
*[[Queer Lit, Manchester]]
*[[The Bookish Type, Leeds]]
*[[The Portal Bookshop, York]]
*[[Lighthouse- Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop]]

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[[Category:Venues]]

Lavender Menace (bookshop and archive)

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Category:Bookshops

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To be added:
*[[Common Press]]
*[[Paned o Gê, Cardiff]]
*[[Shelf Life, Cardiff]]
*[[Proud Geek, Birmingham]]
*[[Queer Lit, Manchester]]
*[[The Bookish Type, Leeds]]
*[[The Portal Bookshop, York]]
*[[Lighthouse- Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop]]

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[[Category:Venues]]

Category Is Books

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'''Category Is Books''' is an independent LGBTQIA+ bookshop in [[Glasgow]].

It was established by Charlotte and Fionn Duffy-Scott in September 2018.<ref>"Southside LGBT+ bookshop celebrates 'incredible' first year", [https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/17979942.southside-lgbt-bookshop-celebrates-incredible-first-year ''Glasgow Times'']</ref><ref>"In conversation with Glasgow's first LGBTQ+ bookshop" [https://glasgowguardian.co.uk/2019/02/27/in-conversation-with-glasgows-first-lgbtq-bookshop ''Glasgow Guardian'', ]</ref>

==See also==
*[[Gay's the Word bookshop]]
*[[Lavender Menace (bookshop)]]

==External links==
*[https://www.categoryisbooks.com/ Official website]

==References==
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[[Category:Bookshops]]
[[Category:Glasgow]]

Category Is Books

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'''Category Is Books''' is an independent LGBTQIA+ bookshop in [[Glasgow]].

It was established by Charlotte and Fionn Duffy-Scott in September 2018.<ref>"Southside LGBT+ bookshop celebrates 'incredible' first year", [https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/17979942.southside-lgbt-bookshop-celebrates-incredible-first-year ''Glasgow Times'']</ref><ref>"In conversation with Glasgow's first LGBTQ+ bookshop" [https://glasgowguardian.co.uk/2019/02/27/in-conversation-with-glasgows-first-lgbtq-bookshop ''Glasgow Guardian'', ]</ref>

==See also==
*[[Gay's the Word bookshop]]
*[[Common Press]]
*[[Paned o Gê, Cardiff]]
*[[Shelf Life, Cardiff]]
*[[Proud Geek, Birmingham]]
*[[Queer Lit, Manchester]]
*[[The Bookish Type, Leeds]]
*[[The Portal Bookshop, York]]
*[[Lighthouse- Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop]]

==External links==
*[https://www.categoryisbooks.com/ Official website]

==References==
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Category Is Books

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'''Category Is Books''' is an independent LGBTQIA+ bookshop in [[Glasgow]].

It was established by Charlotte and Fionn Duffy-Scott in September 2018.<ref>"Southside LGBT+ bookshop celebrates 'incredible' first year", [https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/17979942.southside-lgbt-bookshop-celebrates-incredible-first-year ''Glasgow Times'']</ref><ref>"In conversation with Glasgow's first LGBTQ+ bookshop" [https://glasgowguardian.co.uk/2019/02/27/in-conversation-with-glasgows-first-lgbtq-bookshop ''Glasgow Guardian'', ]</ref>

==See also==
*[[Gay's the word]]
*[[Common Press]]
*[[Paned o Gê, Cardiff]]
*[[Shelf Life, Cardiff]]
*[[Proud Geek, Birmingham]]
*[[Queer Lit, Manchester]]
*[[The Bookish Type, Leeds]]
*[[The Portal Bookshop, York]]
*[[Lighthouse- Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop]]

==External links==
*[https://www.categoryisbooks.com/ Official website]

==References==
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[[Category:Bookshops]]
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Category Is Books

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Category Is Books

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[[Category IS Books]] is an independent LGBTQIA+ bookshop in [[Glasgow]].

Fire Island (Edinburgh)

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'''Fire Island''' was a gay club in Princes Streete, [[Edinburgh]], It opened in 1978 and closed in 1988 when the building was sold the the Waterstones book selling chain. Many celelbrities performed htere, including Eartha Kitt, and it was sometimes referred to as "Edinburgh's Studio 54" (referring to the famous New York nighclub).<ref>[https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/history/edinburgh-locals-look-back-citys-22519222 ''Edinburgh Live''.]
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==External links==
*[https://www.facebook.com/Official-FIRE-ISLAND-EDINBURGH-page-356236646863/ Facebook page]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPltZ6tO_JQ YouTube video]
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