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Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive
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Palette, Room G25c, 151 London Road, Edinburgh EH7 6AE
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Website
lavendermenace.org.uk
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About this place Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive
Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive is a volunteer-run community archive of LGBTQ+ books and history on London Road, named after the gay bookshop that traded in Edinburgh in the 1980s. It holds a lending and reference collection of queer fiction, non-fiction and periodicals, and it hosts talks, reading groups and social Sundays.
The archive is open to drop-in visitors on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11am to 4pm, in Room G25c of the Palette building at 151 London Road. It also publishes a free guide to LGBTQ+ services in Edinburgh, last updated in May 2026, which is worth downloading before a longer stay.
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Opening Hours
Monday
Closed
Tuesday
11:00-16:00
Wednesday
Closed
Thursday
11:00-16:00
Friday
Closed
Saturday
Closed
Sunday
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Last updated on 14 November 2026