Lavender Menace (bookshop)

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Lavender Menace was a gay bookshop in Edinburgh which opened in 1982.[1][2] 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.[3]

Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive and Blog appears on Facebook [4].

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

References

  1. ↑ Gay in the 80s
  2. ↑ Turning the Page: The Radical Story of Scotland’s First LGBTQ Bookshop
  3. ↑ "LGBT+ Bookselling in Scotland" on the Lavender Menace website.
  4. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/lavendermenacereturns accessed 16 February 2023
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