Lavender Menace was an informal group of lesbian radical feminists formed to protest the exclusion of lesbians and their issues from the feminist movement at the Second Congress to Unite Women in New York City on May 1, 1970.
Members included Karla Jay, Martha Shelley, Rita Mae Brown, Lois Hart, Barbara Love, Ellen Shumsky, Artemis March, Cynthia Funk, Linda Rhodes, Arlene Kushner, Ellen Broidy, and Michela Griffo,[1][2] and were mostly members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and the National Organization for Women (NOW).[3] They later became the Radicalesbians.[2]
^Fitzsimons, Tim (2018-10-05). "LGBTQ History Month: The road to America's first gay pride march". NBC News.
^ abShumsky, Ellen (2009-07-01). "Radicalesbians". The Gay & Lesbian Review. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
^Shumsky, Ellen (July 1, 2009). "Radicalesbians". The Gay and Lesbian Review.
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and form lavender, which represents the "queerness of bisexuality", referencing the LavenderMenace and 1980s and 1990s associations of lavender with queerness...
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