Through a Lavender Lens
Format: Book
Keywords: Lavender Menace, West & Wilde
Publisher: Edinburgh Art Festival (EAF)
Reference Number: OS.39485.TH
Acquisition Date: 2/4/2025
Copies: 1
Description:

Celebrating the Legacy of Scotland’s First LGBTQ+ Book Shop. Sigrid Nielsen and Bob Orr opened Scotland’s first lesbian and gay book shop, Lavender Menace. Lavender Menace by then known as West & Wilde closed in 1997. 20 years later, it reopened as The Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive, preserving the rich history of queer literature and activism in Scotland.

-HL
2/4/2024