Scotland’s first lesbian and gay bookshop grew out of several years of LGBT+ bookselling in the city which started with Open Gaze bookstall in 1976 as part of Edinburgh’s Gay Information Centre. This talk explores the history of queer bookselling in Edinburgh, from the early bookstalls to the opening of Lavender Menace and West & Wilde to the resurgence of independent bookshops.
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Lavender Menace Queer Books
Lavender Menace Queer Books work with a wonderful team of volunteers to create and maintain a free and welcoming community archive space for research and socialising. We have a mission to:
- Bring together the queer community in Edinburgh and beyond;
- Celebrate LGBT+ authors and their works;
- Collect and preserve LGBT+ books published between 1970 and 2000
