Shirley Lasseter

Item Data

  • Collection Title: Shirley Lasseter Collection
  • Item Title: Lavender Menace Photo Montage
  • ID Number: SL-053
  • Date Range: 1991-1999
  • Description: Photo montage of softball team Lavender Menace & other Florida softball teams, including Swing Sisters, Rosie's Riveters, Shameless Hussies, Batwimmin!, Tank Girls, and Tom Boyz.
  • Biographical/Historical Note: Lavender Menace was a Gainesville women's softball team.
  • Genres: Amateur Films, Variety Shows
  • Places: Gainesville, Florida; Diamond Sports Park; Sunland Taccachalle ck sp
  • Access & Use: Contact Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) info@lesbianhomemovieproject.org. No re-use without permission. LHMP must contact film donor & participants with regard to any re-use.
  • Color or B&W: Mix
  • Related Versions:
  • Running Time: 27:54
  • Rights: Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) shares rights with Shirley Lasseter during Lasseter's lifetime. Participants also have the right to approve uses of material they appear in during their lifetimes.
  • Sound: Sound
  • Subjects: Lesbians, Women's sports, Softball
  • Creators: Shirley Lasseter
  • Collaborators & Participants: Lavender Menace Swing Sisters Rosie's Riveters Shameless Hussies Batwimmin! Tank Girls Tom Boyz. For further information or to share related memories, email us at info@lesbianhomemovieproject.org.
  • Source Format:
  • Format: DVD
  • Viewing Log: 00:25 "Original Team, 1991, Diamond Sports ParkPhoto of team in tea shirts, track sisters are doing it for themselves 1992 02:44 Swing Sisters team 04:33 Rosie's Riveters team [Track: "Put me in coach I'm ready to play today"] 07:11 Shameless Hussies McGlone's Team (1992-99) Orit's on it. Think she was on the lavender menace team too] Tracks Put me in coach & take me out to the ballgame. 08:99 Batwimmin! Track: Playball. I don't dance, I say you can . . I show you how I swing; 10:43 Seduction (arrow) Redemption! 11:29 Tank Girls 12:27 1996 Fall Ball tee shirts: "Softball is Life" Track Oh what a night. . . oh yes it's ladies night. 13:10 the grrrls -- but that may just be a visual not a team name 13:52 Tom Boyz arrow down to Cheatin Dogs [there's woofing!] yellow shirts 14:26 Bleacher world various years, various parks track: girl watcher. Trey Anderson is in it; Lori; 16:27 who watch and speak (in the lenses of sunglasses)L Umps! 17:04 Divas Track: Girls just want to have fun 17:36 Inseams Track girls just want to have fun. Teams hanging out. 18:15 All Out Girlz 18:48 Volleyball Girlz '94 19:15 looks like basketball or no maybe volleyball indoors 19:40 walk walk wait -- golf 20:31 Adopt a highway lavender menace 20:35 August 13 Lavender Menace party (Keith Haring like drawings) Sat April 30th, 1994 8:3o -Midnight Thelma Bolton Center followed by a bunch of posters for Womyn's Land Fund Benefit Dance & Auction. etc. 20:58 Lavender Menace Flag Football [think some may be topless] 23:32 continuating of dance party with track, you can tell by . . . that I like the girls . . . That's all right it's ok 23:48 or so you're a gaineville dyke 23:55 mother's day with lavender menace gainesville dyke continues: well some have dogs and some have cats and some prefer to swing a bat diversity takes community and when it's time for a shopping spree well Iris Books is where we'll be . . . . massage & acupuncturists massage & ...you're a gainesville dyke ... whether you're packing or lipstick smackin you're a ---- end: Rosalie, Kathy ....Thanks for helping us all get to First Base....no seriously - Thanks!! in purple type shirley 9 lives copyright 2007