Lavender Menace

Queer Books Archive

Queer writing

  • The Left Hand of Darkness

    The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuinAce Books, 1969. Exploring new worlds A love story between a man from earth and a double-sexed alien? This was a genuine case […]

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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. […]

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  • Maybe the Moon

    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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  • Welcome to our blog

    Welcome to our blog

    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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