On June 28, 1992 six lesbians went to New York'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, and almost as many for two Dyke Marches in New York. More than fifty chapters spanned the globe, and periodicals from The New York Times to Newsweek had taken note.