Lavender Menace (bookshop)
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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 Street. Lavender Books was set up as a collective, and began selling esbian and gay books and paraphernalia at conferences and marches across the UK between 1980 and 1981.[2]
Lavender Menace is also the name of an LGBT youih project in Dumfries and Galloway.
