Blog Archives - Lavender Menace https://lavendermenace.org.uk/category/blog Queer Books Archive Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:06:25 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://lavendermenace.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Eye-3.0-32x32.png Blog Archives - Lavender Menace https://lavendermenace.org.uk/category/blog 32 32 Book Review: Waiting on a Friend by Natalie Adler https://lavendermenace.org.uk/waiting-on-a-friend Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:06:17 +0000 https://lavendermenace.org.uk/?p=17382 Lavender Menace volunteer Katie Marson reviews Waiting on a Friend by Natalie Adler, which will be published by Quercus Publishing later this year. Natalie Adler’s Waiting on a Friend is […]

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]]> Reimagining the Archive with Mae Diansangu and Shane Strachan https://lavendermenace.org.uk/reimagining-the-archive Sat, 20 Sep 2025 19:38:30 +0000 https://lavendermenace.org.uk/?p=15362 You can now watch the recording of this event online Last year, we welcomed Mae Diansangu and Shane Strachan to the Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive for an afternoon of […]

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]]> Archiving Queer Futures: Eman Abdelhadi in conversation with Nat Raha https://lavendermenace.org.uk/archiving-queer-futures Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:12:53 +0000 https://lavendermenace.org.uk/?p=15332 You can now watch the recording of this event online. Lavender Menace hosted an online discussion between two activist scholars on imagining and archiving queer futures. Dr Eman Abdelhadi is […]

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]]> Homophobia: A 20th Century Classic https://lavendermenace.org.uk/homophobia-classic https://lavendermenace.org.uk/homophobia-classic#comments Wed, 19 May 2021 01:30:00 +0000 https://lavendermenace.org.uk/?p=454 How can 20th century novels help us understand homophobia? No matter how brilliantly written, many celebrated novels have homophobic elements.

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]]> https://lavendermenace.org.uk/homophobia-classic/feed 1 At the World’s End https://lavendermenace.org.uk/at-the-worlds-end https://lavendermenace.org.uk/at-the-worlds-end#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2021 11:22:34 +0000 https://lavendermenace.org.uk/?p=385 Meggie’s Journeys by Margaret D’AmbrosioPolygon, 1987 A few days ago, #ReclaimTheseStreetsPorty, one of the groups formed after the abduction and presumed murder of Sarah Everard in London, attached a series […]

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]]> https://lavendermenace.org.uk/at-the-worlds-end/feed 1 Unsung: the queer books that tell our story – the video https://lavendermenace.org.uk/unsung-the-queer-books-that-tell-our-story-the-video https://lavendermenace.org.uk/unsung-the-queer-books-that-tell-our-story-the-video#respond Fri, 26 Feb 2021 13:33:26 +0000 https://lavendermenace.org.uk/?p=368 As part of this year’s LGBT History Month, Bob and Sigrid took part in a live webinar conversation on 24 February with Chris Creegan about how queer books tell our […]

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]]> https://lavendermenace.org.uk/unsung-the-queer-books-that-tell-our-story-the-video/feed 0 Du Maurier’s Rebecca and Queer Culture https://lavendermenace.org.uk/du-mauriers-rebecca-and-queer-culture https://lavendermenace.org.uk/du-mauriers-rebecca-and-queer-culture#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2020 13:00:01 +0000 https://lavendermenace.org.uk/?p=347 Why has Rebecca always had a reputation as a queer novel? Generations of gay men have declaimed the first line, spoken by Joan Fontaine in the 1940 film: ‘Last night […]

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]]> https://lavendermenace.org.uk/du-mauriers-rebecca-and-queer-culture/feed 2 Murder in the Collective https://lavendermenace.org.uk/murder-in-the-collective https://lavendermenace.org.uk/murder-in-the-collective#respond Thu, 22 Oct 2020 11:00:00 +0000 https://lavendermenace.org.uk/?p=245 Murder in the Collective by Barbara WilsonWomen’s Press, 1984ISBN 0704339439 ‘Safe spaces’ in 1984 were thin on the ground ‘Safe spaces’ for queer  people were rarely heard of in 1984. […]

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]]> https://lavendermenace.org.uk/murder-in-the-collective/feed 0 Maybe the Moon https://lavendermenace.org.uk/maybe-the-moon https://lavendermenace.org.uk/maybe-the-moon#respond Tue, 02 Jun 2020 12:00:02 +0000 https://lavendermenace.org.uk/?p=71 Maybe the Moon Bantam Press 1993, a division of Transworld Publishers LtdISBN 0593 027655 The Lavender Menace LGBT+ Archive has been growing for about a year now. One of our […]

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]]> https://lavendermenace.org.uk/maybe-the-moon/feed 0 Welcome to our blog https://lavendermenace.org.uk/welcome-to-our-new-lavender-menace-books-archive-blog https://lavendermenace.org.uk/welcome-to-our-new-lavender-menace-books-archive-blog#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2020 11:48:59 +0000 https://lavendermenace.org.uk/?p=96 We've already started blogging about the books in our growing archive – found in our own and friends' collections and secondhand shops.  And we invite you to join us.

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