"titled 'lavender haze' after the phrase from gay poet James Schuyler's love poem, 'Sunda' (1974) which later appeared in an academic thesis at SFSU 'Behind the lavender haze: a sociological study of lesbianism' by Nancy Elizabeth Cunningham (1976), and with regard to lavender being a historically queer color (see: Lavender Panthers, The Lavender Scare, Lavender Marriages, Lavender Menace, etc.)"--Page 118.