| Company type | Bookshop |
|---|---|
| Founded | 21 August 1982 |
| Founder | Sigrid Nielsen and Bob Orr |
| Defunct | 1986 |
| Website | https://lavendermenace.org.uk/ |
The Lavender Menace Bookshop was an independent gay bookshop in Edinburgh from 1982 to 1986.[1] It was the first gay bookshop in Scotland and the second in the United Kingdom.
As of 2019, the Lavender Menace now operates as The Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive. As a blog and pop-up bookshop, it preserves rare, out of print queer books and ephemera through physical and digital archiving efforts.[2]