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Robert Orr (born 2003)
Robert Orr may refer to: * Bob Orr (bookseller) (born 1950), co-founder of Lavender Menace Bookshop in Edinburgh, Scotland * Bobby Orr (born 1948), Canadian hockey player * Bobby Orr (drummer) (1928–2020), jazz drummer * Rob Orr (politician) (born 1955), Texas politician * Robert Orr (executive) (1953–2021), American businessman in Japan, President of Boeing Japan, Vice President of Motorola * Robert Orr (footballer) (1891–1948), Scottish footballer * Robert Orr Jr. (1786–1876), American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania * Robert C. Orr, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Strategic Planning * Robert D. Orr (1917–2004), American politician, Governor of Indiana ** Bust of Robert D. Orr * Robert F. Orr (born 1946), American lawyer and judge * Robert T. Orr (1908–1994), American biologist * Robert Kemsley Orr, known as Robin Orr, Scottish composer * July Jones, American actor whose birth name was Robert Orr {{hndis, Orr, Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Orr (bookseller)
Robert W. Orr (born March 1950) is a bookseller based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Orr is best known as the co-founder of the Lavender Menace Bookshop, alongside Sigrid Nielsen. Early ventures In the 1970s, Orr worked at the ''First of May'', a now-defunct radical bookstore on Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh, which specialised in LGBT+ literature. In 1976, Orr invited Nielsen to join the Open Gaze bookstall, a gay and feminist books collective that he had begun as part of the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group’s (SHRG) Gay Information Centre on Broughton Street, Edinburgh. The Open Gaze was successful, but its radical catalogue faced a great deal of backlash, even from within the SHRG. In 1979, the collective was accused of either socialist leanings, or "selling a blasphemous greeting card", or both. Orr's correspondence, publications, and papers (1974–1994), which explores these events and more, are archived in the manuscripts collection of the National Library of Scotland. Lavender ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |