Lesbian Avenger Eat Fire
Name/Title
Lesbian Avenger Eat FireEntry/Object ID
2026.5.1Tags
Advocacy, Feminism, Lesbian Visibility, Politics, Power, ProtestSecondary Title
September - November 1992Motion Picture Details
Subject
Lesbian AvengersSubject Place
City
New York, NYContext
The Lesbian Avengers were born in 1992 during an earlier wave of hardcore woman-hating, and anti-gay, white Nationalist hate. In 1992, six lesbians went to New York City's gay pride march and handed out flyers reading "LESBIANS! DYKES! GAY WOMEN!... We're wasting our lives being careful. Imagine what your life could be. Aren't you ready to make it happen?" Two years later the fire-eating Lesbian Avengers had already mobilized twenty thousand dykes for a march on Washington. More than fifty chapters spanned the globe. And periodicals from the New York Times to Newsweek had taken note. They were more than a fad, but a force to be reckoned with. Dedicated to lesbian visibility, this media-savvy, direct action group took on gay-bashings and murders, held homophobes accountable, helped thwart antigay legislation in Colorado and Idaho, and redefined dykes as the coolest, most ferocious, girls on the block.Category
VHS