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  • Asexuality in the Archive

    Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive Edinburgh Palette Room G25c 151 London Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

    This interactive workshop introduces how asexuality was treated as a medical issue in the Victorian Age and its impact on contemporary media representation. It will begin by examining how nineteenth-century doctors constructed a set of symptoms that supposedly diagnosed individuals as asexual. Together, we’ll look at how this conceptualisation is mirrored – or challenged – […]

  • Gay Scotland Now Collage Workshop at Edinburgh Zine Fair

    Edinburgh Zine Fair Floor 3, 151 London Road, Edinburgh

    Join Lavender Menace for a free and fun collage workshop remixing text and images from Gay Scotland. Gay Scotland was a staple of the Scottish queer scene when it was published in the 1980s-2000s. Explore LGBT events, adverts, articles, and classifieds from the past and remix them to reflect what Scotland means to queer communities […]

  • The Lavender Drawing Board

    Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive Edinburgh Palette Room G25c 151 London Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

    The Lavender Drawing Board: Co-working for queer creatives Researching, writing and creative freelancing can be a lonely road. The Lavender Menace Drawing Board offers a calm, supportive atmosphere for studying, reading and library-reasonable creative work in the company of fellow queer bees. Because of the nature of the building, we can’t guarantee silence but we […]

  • 3,000 Lesbians Go to York

    Filmhouse 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh

    Join Lavender Menace at the Filmhouse for a screening of this brilliant new film. Followed by a Q&A with author Jane Traies and director Rachel Dax, and a booksigning.3000 Lesbians Go To York tells the extraordinary true story of how a lesbian bookseller (who also happened to be trans) created the largest gathering of LGBTQ+ […]

  • Two men reading the newspaper Gay News

    Queer Men for Queer Literature

    Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive Edinburgh Palette Room G25c 151 London Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

    A friendly monthly discussion group about gay books and gay writing, for people who enjoy reading and talking about how gay writing has impacted our lives. We meet on the second Sunday of every month and we pick a different theme/topic each time. As International Men’s Day is coming up this month, in November we’ll […]

  • Scotch Verdict with Lillian Faderman

    Join Lavender Menace for a conversation with Lillian Faderman about the writing of her acclaimed book Scotch Verdict. First published in 1983, the book details the experience of uncovering the story of a scandal surrounding a 19th-century boarding school in Edinburgh’s New Town. This online event will be held on Zoom. We’ll email attendees a Zoom […]

  • Queer Joy

    Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive Edinburgh Palette Room G25c 151 London Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

    Join us at our monthly Queer Joy book club! In November, we’re reading Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072 by Eman Abdelhadi and M. E. O’Brien. See one of the authors discussing the book at our recent event on archiving queer futures. We meet on the third Sunday of […]

  • A photograph of a crowd of lesbians from the Lesbian Herstory Archive marching carrying banners with Mabel Hampton, Radclyffe Hall, and other lesbian icons.

    Lesbian Words

    Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive Edinburgh Palette Room G25c 151 London Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

    A monthly informal gathering to discuss literature by lesbians and queer women.

  • An engraving of an old library tainted purple with Future Drop Outs written on the left hand side

    Future Drop Outs: co-working group

    Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive Edinburgh Palette Room G25c 151 London Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

    Future Drop Outs is a co-working group for queer students, researchers, and writers. Join us for a calm, supportive studying session, 1-4pm on the third Monday of the month. What to expect A relaxed and relatively quiet space to work on your own project in the company of others. Because of the nature of the […]

  • Fashioning Our Selves with Katrina Rolley

    Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive Edinburgh Palette Room G25c 151 London Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

    Join Lavender Menace and writer Katrina Rolley for an intimate creative non-fiction workshop exploring how we fashion our selves and our identities through clothing.  Book a free place if you’d like to attend. What to expect An informal conversational workshop in a small group lasting 2 hours (with a short break and refreshments). You don’t […]

  • An illustration of a gothic window, bookshelf and scaredlooking Dr Frankenstein. From the 1813 edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.

    Queer Gothic Words

    Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive Edinburgh Palette Room G25c 151 London Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

    A monthly book club focusing on queer gothic writing. Every month we choose a book (or selection of shorter texts) by LGBTQ+ authors, or featuring queer characters/themes to read and discuss together. We alternate between classic and contemporary texts. November’s book: The Terror by Dan Simmons. Please book in advance. If you are unable to attend, please […]

  • Decorative: An image of rainbow coloured books with the text Social Sunday

    Social Sunday

    Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive Edinburgh Palette Room G25c 151 London Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

    On the 2nd and 4th Sunday of every month, the Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive is open 2pm–4pm for our informal Social Sundays. Join us for tea, cake and lots of queer book discussion! There is no need to sign up in advance, you can just turn up. Social Sundays are a great way to […]