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SUMMARY:Social Sunday
DESCRIPTION: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! \n\n\n\nThere is no need to sign up in advance\, you can just turn up. \n\n\n\nSocial Sundays are a great way to learn more about the archive and chat about your favourite LGBTQ+ books. You can come with friends or on your own – our volunteers will make you feel welcome. \n\n\n\nVenue & Accessibility\n\n\n\nSocial Sundays take place at the Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive in Edinburgh Palette. Information about accessibility and how to get to us on public transport and by car is available on our website: How To Find Us and Accessibility Information. \n\n\n\nAny other questions\n\n\n\nPlease email us: themenaces@lavendermenace.org.uk
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SUMMARY:Lesbian Words
DESCRIPTION:Following the success of our Lesbian Words discussion group\, we invite new members to join our monthly informal book club to discuss literature by lesbians and queer women. \n\n\n\nThis month\, we are discussing how writing helps us survive as lesbians and queer women. We will also include a short writing session. You are welcome to bring along any text\, poem\, or excerpt you are reading or writing if you would like to share it. \n\n\n\n\n\nBooking information\n\n\n\nThis event is free but booking in advance is essential as places are limited. If you are unable to attend\, please let us know as soon as possible so we can offer your place to someone else. \n\n\n\nVenue & Accessibility\n\n\n\nThe sessions are located at the Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive in Edinburgh Palette. Information about accessibility and how to get to us on public transport and by car is available on our website: How To Find Us and Accessibility Information. \n\n\n\nAny other questions\n\n\n\nPlease email us: themenaces@lavendermenace.org.uk
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SUMMARY:“Indecent and obscene” - 40 years since Operation Tiger
DESCRIPTION:40 years ago\, customs officers launched “Operation Tiger”. They seized books destined for LGBTQ+ bookshops Gay’s the Word in London and Lavender Menace in Edinburgh.  \n\n\n\nJoin us for an evening with Graham McKerrow\, Sarah Pyke\, and Sigrid Nielsen to discuss Operation Tiger\, obscenity\, and queer bookselling in the 1980s. \n\n\n\nThis event will be held online with panellists joining us from Edinburgh\, Cambridge\, and London. Please book a ticket and we will email you a link on the day of the event.  \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the panellists\n\n\n\nGraham McKerrow is a journalist and political activist who edited leading gay and HIV/AIDS publications. He trained as a journalist on local newspapers and in 1980 he joined Gay News as a reporter and investigated police harassment and failings. The following year he co-founded and then co-edited Capital Gay. In response to Operation Tiger\, he coordinated the Defend Gay’s the Word Campaign. In the 1990s\, he edited the magazine Positive Nation for people with HIV/AIDS. He then spent 15 years at the Guardian\, ultimately as editor of the Guardian and Observer Syndication Service. \n\n\n\nSigrid Nielsen is a graduate of St John’s College in Santa Fe\, New Mexico. In Edinburgh in 1979 she joined Bob Orr in Open Gaze\, the bookstall he ran at Edinburgh Gay Centre\, and worked in other bookselling and publishing groups. She and Bob opened Lavender Menace\, Scotland’s first Lesbian and Gay Community Bookshop\, as a partnership in 1982. Sigrid managed author readings\, mail order lists\, and bookshop events. She co-edited In Other Words: Writing as a Feminist (Hutchinson Education\, 1987) and published articles and short stories. In 2019\, she and Bob revived Lavender Menace as an LGBT+ books archive and heritage organisation. \n\n\n\nDr Sarah Pyke is Munby Fellow in Bibliography 2023–2024 at Cambridge University Library and a Fellow of Darwin College\, Cambridge. She has taught at London Rare Books School\, Anglia Ruskin University\, and the University of Roehampton and has held fellowships at the School of Advanced Study’s Institute of English Studies and Freie Universität Berlin. With Malcolm Noble\, she has recently written on queer bibliography\, and a co-edited special issue of The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America on this emerging sub-discipline will be published in June 2024. With Leila Kassir\, Sarah co-curated the online exhibition Seized Books! LGBTQ+ books and censorship in 1980s Britain for Senate House Library\, University of London. \n\n\n\nVenue & Accessibility\n\n\n\nThe event will take place online over Zoom. If you have accessibility requirements\, please email themenaces@lavendermenace.org.uk. \n\n\n\nAny other questions\n\n\n\nPlease email themenaces@lavendermenace.org.uk.
URL:https://lavendermenace.org.uk/event/indecent-and-obscene-40-years-since-operation-tiger
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SUMMARY:Social Sunday
DESCRIPTION: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! \n\n\n\nThere is no need to sign up in advance\, you can just turn up. \n\n\n\nSocial Sundays are a great way to learn more about the archive and chat about your favourite LGBTQ+ books. You can come with friends or on your own – our volunteers will make you feel welcome. \n\n\n\nVenue & Accessibility\n\n\n\nSocial Sundays take place at the Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive in Edinburgh Palette. Information about accessibility and how to get to us on public transport and by car is available on our website: How To Find Us and Accessibility Information. \n\n\n\nAny other questions\n\n\n\nPlease email us: themenaces@lavendermenace.org.uk
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