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

    Social Sunday

    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 […]

  • The Lavender Drawing Board

    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, […]

  • Who’s Lore is it Anyway? Queering Scottish Folktales with Elisabeth Flett

    Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive Edinburgh Palette, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Come along to the archive for a queer folklore-themed writing workshop with Scottish author Elisabeth Flett! Elisabeth’s 2025 novel No Such Thing As Kelpies is an LGBTQ+ modern re-imagining of […]

  • Two men reading the newspaper Gay News

    Queer Men for Queer Literature

    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 […]

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

    Social Sunday

    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 […]

  • Queer Joy

    Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive Edinburgh Palette, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Join us at our monthly Queer Joy book club! After a break for January, we’re returning in February when we’re reading Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo. We normally meet […]

  • 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

    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

    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 […]

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

    Queer Gothic Words

    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 […]

  • Pub Quiz Fundraiser for Lavender Menace

    Join us for a pub quiz, raffle and social with Dyke Bar! Fundraising for non-profits and LGBTQ+ organisations is especially tough right now, and we’d love your support to help […]

  • Past Shelves: Queer Histories of Reading (Exhibition)

    Museum of Edinburgh 142-146 Canongate, Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom

    Join us for the Past Shelves exhibition to explore the impact of LGBTQ+ reading, publishing, and bookselling. The exhibition is inspired by Scotland’s first LGBTQ+ bookshops, community experiences of reading […]