• 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, […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Dyke’s Delight: Kate Charlesworth in Conversation with Jay Whittaker

    Assembly Rooms 54 George Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Join Lavender Menace for an evening of stories of lesbian life and art. Kate Charlesworth is an illustrator and writer of renowned lesbian cult classics like Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s […]

  • Queer Joy

    Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive Edinburgh Palette, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Join us at our monthly Queer Joy book club! In March, we’re reading Frighten the Horses by Oliver Radclyffe. We normally meet on the third Sunday of each month to […]

  • 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 […]

  • Becoming Archived with the Lesbian Snapshot Collective

    Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive Edinburgh Palette, Edinburgh, Scotland

    “…ive us a visual record of our passages… a mosaic of lesbian strength, of our strivings to remake our outer and inner worlds.” – Joan Nestle In an era shaped […]