https://www.advocate.com/history/betty-friedan-anti-lesbian
As lesbian activist Karla Jay later wrote in her memoir, "Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation," "I'm tired of being in the closet because of the women's movement."

https://www.them.us/story/lavender-menace
The "herring" remark, Jay wrote, inspired lesbian feminist activists toward action. Some had been active in the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), but in working with gay men had found themselves adrift, Lavender Menace member Ellen Shumsky wrote for Come Out! magazine in 1970 and 1972. So much of the group's actions, they felt, had focused on the interests and rights of gay men.

https://www1.wellesley.edu/sites/default/files/assets/departments/americanstudies/files/anna-weick---hersey-prize-paper-2011.pdf
Cheshire Calhoun in "Separating Lesbian Theory from Feminist Theory" Lesbians who identified more with gay liberation than with feminism were viewed as highly radicalized during this time6. Karla Jay discusses the conflict between lesbians and mainstream feminism in her book Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_Menace
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

https://www.pbs.org/outofthepast/past/p5/1970.html
1970: Lesbians stage "Lavender Menace" protest action at a feminist conference, ... Lesbian feminists saw sexism as the main evil underlying many of society's problems, and focused on fighting for

https://daily.jstor.org/how-now-started-standing-up-for-lesbians/
At New York City NOW, lesbian members who called for the recognition of lesbian rights as a feminist cause found themselves pushed out of leadership positions. In 1969, Friedan notoriously referred to lesbians as a "lavender menace" to the movement. She and some other NOW leaders argued that publicly supporting the right to same-sex

https://medium.com/queer-history-for-the-people/rita-mae-brown-lavender-menace-759dd376b6bc
As an ardent lesbian feminist, Rita Mae Brown had difficulty finding her place within the social movements of 1960s and 1970s America. Born in 1944 and raised in Pennsylvania and Florida, Brown

https://www.nyclgbtsites.org/site/lavender-menace-action-at-second-congress-to-unite-women/
"Lavender Menace" was an action led by Radicalesbians, with women from the Gay Liberation Front and several feminist organizations, at the National Organization for Women's (NOW) Second Congress to Unite Women in May 1970 to protest the rejection of lesbians in the second-wave women's liberation movement. ... The Lesbian Newsletter

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/495123
Jessica Megarry, Catherine Orian Weiss, Meagan Tyler, Kate Farhall Women who prefer "lesbian" to "queer": generational continuity and discontinuity, Journal of Lesbian Studies 26, no.1 1 (Aug 2021): 53-72.

https://www.thefeministinstitute.org/people?id=106
The Lavender Menace or revolution 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

https://dressingdykes.com/2020/09/18/lesbian-rebellion-and-the-lavender-menace/
The Lavender Menace, which later reformed as Radicalesbians, was a group of lesbian feminist activists. It was created as a response to famous feminist author Betty Friedan's assertion that lesbians were a "lavender menace" and that they would undermine the women's movement. Her statement led to the exclusion of lesbians and lesbian issues from the

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lesbian-menace-psa-from-1_n_3084864
Of course, things weren't always so rosy, as a PSA from 1938 demonstrates. Though the Hollywood Code banned any references to homosexuality in 1934, the makers of "Lesbian Menace" got around the censorship by marketing the following as a "public service" film discouraging lesbianism.In the film, Peggy attempts to seduce her innocent coworker Betty, caressing the other woman's arms, taking her

https://help.lex.lgbt/article/112-irl-a-brief-history-of-lesbian-visibility-lgbtq-history
Lesbians in the Mid-20th Century. Organized LGBTQ+ activism began surfacing in Western nations during the mid-20th century. Yet, within these movements, lesbians often found themselves sidelined, as predominantly led by gay men. A pivotal moment emerged with the Stonewall Riots in 1969, igniting the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement in the United

https://dressingdykes.com/2021/08/20/from-lavender-to-violet/
In 1970, the Lavender Menace lesbian activist group stormed the stage of the Second Congress to Unite Women; they were responding to famous feminist Betty Friedan's comment than lesbians were a "lavender menace" that would undermine the women's movement. By this point, lavender was already cemented as shorthand for gay, queer, or different.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313178122_From_Here_to_Queer_Radical_Feminism_Postmodernism_and_the_Lesbian_Menace
Mar 2016. Eva M Gillis-Buck. ... Queer theory emerged as an "academic arm of activism" (Rand, 2014, p. 6) during the 1980s and 1990s, when HIV/AIDS reinvigorated the lesbian and gay movement

https://lgbtqhistory.org/lesson/the-lavender-menace/
Lavender Menace: Later called the Radicalesbians, a political group that organized for the recognition of lesbian issues within the Women's Movement of the 1970s. Second Wave Feminism: Also called the Women's Movement, a political movement in the 1960s-1980s to further women's legal and economic rights, as well as their social position.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/lesbian-menace-restored-popup-museum-of-queer-history--189925309257994500/
Explore this restored film clip from the 1938 venereal era. Discover the fascinating stories at the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History.

https://www.cineaste.com/spring2012/from-the-archives-the-legend-of-lylah-clare
Just as sappy as Rossella's lesbian menace is the hoary cliché of the power that Lylah exerts from beyond the grave that makes itself known when Elsa shows signs of channeling Lylah's excesses. At dramatically appropriate moments, the ladylike Elsa is possessed abruptly by a spirit of Bacchanalian abandon—so reminiscent of Lylah—and

https://www.autostraddle.com/1938-psa-warns-against-evil-lesbian-menaces-173196/
Hansen's Team Pick: This 1938 PSA warns against the evil nature of lesbian menaces looking for any opportunity to lure you into their evil, sexy ways. The Hollywood Code banned all references to

https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/4q77ft951
This book addresses these and other questions by examining how lesbianism has been represented in American popular culture in the twentieth century and how conflicting ideologies have shaped lesbian experiences and identity. Citable Link. Published: 1997.

https://my.slc.edu/ICS/icsfs/Walters_-_From_Here_TO_Queer_-_Signs_1996.pdf?target=18bae95e-e29e-4181-ae5e-5e81e4145a42
(trendy) gay and lesbian studies and even for gay/lesbian identity. So queer can, on many occasions, be a rather undeliberate way of referencing gay or lesbian. But this is not the usage I will be examining, as it is merely a replacement term for homosexual or gay or lesbian. Rather, more important for us here, queer is used as a signifier of a

https://archiveofourown.org/series/3600595
lesbian_menace Series Begun: 2022-11-18 Series Updated: 2023-07-05 Stats: Words: 20,408 Works: 2 Complete: No Bookmarks: 3. Listing Series. Halfway Home by lesbian_menace Fandoms: My Policeman - Bethan Roberts, My Policeman (2022) General Audiences; Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings; M/M; Complete Work;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian_erasure
The term lesbian erasure has been used by some radical feminists, such as members of the United Kingdom organization Get the L Out (which focuses on excluding trans women from the lesbian community and "removing the already marginalised L", arguing lesbians are "under huge pressure within their LGBT+ groups to accept trans women as sexual