06/05/2026
For the month of Pride (June) The Franklin Fountain is scooping Lavender Honey Caramel Ice Cream ๐๐๐ฏ The flavor has been tinkered with and improved from last yearโs floral foray. Cream is steeped with lavender buds from , and swirled with liquid Lavender Honey Caramel; sweet, floral, and a little savory.
In addition for the month of June, we will be serving the ๐โก๏ธLavender Menace Sundae (pictured)โก๏ธ๐ Lavender Honey Caramel Ice Cream, Green Tea Ice Cream, Hot Fudge, Whipped Cream, Purple Sprinkles - and fully recommended in a Maple Waffle Cone Bowl. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ $2 from every Lavender Menace Sundae will be donated to the .
Lavender Menace was an informal group of le***an feminists formed to protest the exclusion of le***ans and their issues from the feminist movement at the Second Congress to Unite Women in New York City on May 1, 1970. Purple and its flowers of lavender and violet, have been a symbol for homosexuality since the late 19th c when archeologists discovered portions of the poems of Sappho, which contained references to purple violets. By 1920 "Das Lila Lied" (The Lavender Song), the first q***r anthem, was being sung across Berlin.
The First Wave Feminists, like Suzanne B Anthony, refused to share the battle for suffrage with the Black community. The Second Wave Feminists then refused to include q***r women in the struggle for equality, with the fear they would drag down the movement. In 1969 the president of National Organization for Women, Betty Friedan, coined the phrase โLavender Menaceโ to describe the threat that she believed associations with le***anism posed. Like many oppressed peoples, the le***an feminist movement took up the originally derogatory name of Lavender Meance in an act of reclamation and rebellion ๐ฉโโค๏ธโ๐ฉโ๐ Today the the struggle for intersectionality continues for the Black and trans communities, who are both often excluded from the efforts of many self proclaimed feminists, as well as gay & le***an activists.
"Nobodyโs free until everybodyโs free," Fannie Lou Hamer, Civil Rights Activist.
