lavender menace (uncountable)
- (often ironic) The presence of lesbians or lesbian activism in the feminist movement, seen as a threat to the movement at large.
1982 August 28, Scott Brookie, “Making Love, Not War”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 7, page 5:It's an old story that lesbians and gay men have always been a part of movements for justice. However, it is only recently, as queers have come into their own political awareness, that this has been more than an unacknowledged, unreciprocated contribution of gay and lesbian spirit. […] We were the lavender menace of the early women's movement and the bourgeois decadent lifestylists of the sectarian New Left.
