Nearly twenty-five years ago, the Lesbian Avengers kicked off with a daring action encouraging elementary school children to "Ask about Lesbian Lives."
This simple, but taboo-busting gesture launched an extraordinary movement that spoke to lesbians everywhere. Their most visible legacy is the Dyke March, still organized in cities across the globe.
Join us to celebrate Lesbian Avengers 25 and encourage new activists to go forth and wreak havoc for the sake of dyke lives.
Exhibits, Panels, Screenings and Parties Worldwide!
We did it, and we'll do it again
We did it, and we'll do it again! The Lesbian Avengers Mobile Exhibit 1.0 celebrates this direct action group formed 25 years ago during another surge of hardcore misogyny, and anti-gay, white Nationalist hate. Includes still photos, flyers, posters, slide shows, and video. Were you there? We welcome your participation. This mobile exhibit won't take on its final form until late April. In June, it will begin to pop up all over the country. Including a neighborhood near you!
Also exhibited, images of powerful women fighting AIDS worldwide from the new feature film, "Nothing Without Us," by Harriet Hirshorn and Mary Patierno. From New York to Nigeria. Burundi to the American South.
Join us for the opening reception party on Friday, March 31st with readings and performances by special guests including Eileen Myles and Sassafras Lowrey.
Related upcoming events:
Friday, April 21, BGSQD
Friday, May 12, BGSQD
Friday, June 2, BGSQD
Bureau of General Services Queer Division
The LGBTQ Center
208 W 13th St #210
New York, NY 10011
Fri. March 31, 2017 - through June 4, 2017
Lesbian Avengers 25 event series, "Resist, Rebel, Transgress" in co-operation with Lambda Literary.
Reading includes Avenger co-founder and writer Sarah Schulman, writer Carmen Machado.
Lesbian Avengers 25 event series, "Resist, Rebel, Transgress" featuring a screening of the powerful film, Nothing Without Us," by Avengers Harriet Hirshorn and Mary Patierno about women fighting AIDS worldwide.
Lesbian Avengers 25 event series, "Resist, Rebel, Transgress" in co-operation with Lambda Literary.
Reading includes Lesbian Avengers and writers, Susana Cook, Ana Simo (co-founder), and others.
To help plan, join a group in your area.
Details coming soon!
