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[4] On 21 August 1982, founders Bob Orr and Sigrid Nielsen opened the Lavender Menace Bookshop in the basement of 11a Forth Street.
[7][8] The shop also hosted groups and events, such as an open meeting for the Gay Youth Movement in 1983 and Lesbian Reader's Evenings in 1985, which attracted guests such as authors Jeanette Winterson and Suniti Namjoshi.
They were eventually discovered, although Nielsen noted in an interview that "I was just happy that their names should be remembered – even by customs men at the docks".
The play drew inspiration from the story of how the Lavender Menace Bookshop was founded and is set in the last few days of the shop's time at Forth Street.