Lavender Menace Bookshop’s first anniversary party

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

52043

Title

Postcard for Lavender Menace Bookshop’s first anniversary party, 1983

Description

Grey postcard-size Lavender Menace party invitation with "come to our 1st birthday party" 21.8.83, on one side and a drawing of a man with a t-shirt with names of historic gays and lesbians on the other. From Lavender Menace and West & Wilde gay and lesbian bookshops. The back has details of the party and states "readings, music, wine and quiche (if you'll eat it)".

Photo credit: Suzy Murray

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1983

Type

Paper; Postcard

Accession number

SH2006.48.24

Lavender Menace Bookshop was founded by Bob Orr and Sigrid Nielsen and opened on Forth Street in 1982. It closed in 1987 and moved to a new location in Dundas Street renamed as West & Wilde. Lavender Menace was revived as an online queer archive and blogsite in 2019 in the wake of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York, 1969. Visit Lavender Menace online to find out more.

Collected for the Remember When LBGT project.

The Remember When project was an oral and community history project which documented the lives and achievements of Edinburgh’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, past and present and was a joint initiative between the City of Edinburgh and the Living Memory Association.

The project recorded the stories of a wide range of Edinburgh’s LGBT communities and showed how they have continually made a distinctive and valuable contribution to life in Edinburgh.

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