Category: LGBT+
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An Interview with Jackie Kay on Trumpet
Scottish poet, playwright, and novelist Jackie Kay recently sat down for a conversation with Lavender Menace volunteer Maeve Sheridan to discuss her 1998 novel Trumpet. Following the family of a transgender musician who was outed after his death, the novel navigates media narratives that exploit trans life and the place of grief under those conditions.…
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Book Review: Waiting on a Friend by Natalie Adler
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 a heartwarming, heartbreaking, triumph of a debut. It is both a celebration of queer culture and history, and a creative condemnation of the capitalist systems…
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Dorian the Maenad
Lavender Menace volunteer, Michael, explores the queer links between The Picture of Dorian Gray and the Cult of Dionysus.
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Lavender and Menaces
The clothed lesbian body as a tool of resistance, the sapphic significance of purple, and the making of the modern-day femme
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A Lavender Attic
‘LGBT+ archives,’ says Gerard Koskovich of the GLBT Historical Society of San Francisco, ‘are your queer grandma’s attic’. They are the place where younger generations will find our legacy.
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Murder in the Collective
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. This mystery by a lesbian writer explores the idea of ‘safe’ and ‘dangerous’. In a liberal, wealthy city, challenging the system isn’t supposed to lead…
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