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'''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>
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'''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> It was set up by [[Sigrid Nielsen]] and [[Bob Orr]]
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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 Stree<t.ref>[https://lavendermenace.org.uk/lgbt-bookselling-in-scotland "LGBT+ Bookselling in Scotland" on the Lavender Menace website.]]</ref>
  
 
[[Lavender Menace]] is also the name of an LGBT youih project in [[Dumfries and Galloway]].
 
[[Lavender Menace]] is also the name of an LGBT youih project in [[Dumfries and Galloway]].

Revision as of 15:33, 16 February 2023

Lavender Menace was a gay bookshop in Edinburgh which opened in 1982.[1] 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 Stree<t.ref>"LGBT+ Bookselling in Scotland" on the Lavender Menace website.]</ref>

Lavender Menace is also the name of an LGBT youih project in Dumfries and Galloway.

References

  1. Gay in the 80s