Lesbian Avenger Handbooks
New Edition June 1!
We're pleased to announce a new, updated edition now geared towards historians, too, as well as scholars focused on media and social change. New content includes dozens of additional pages of Avenger Communiqués, great original source material reporting on fire-eating demos, fear-defying zaps, and provocative kiss-ins. We also offer an essay on the Lesbian Avengers Civil Rights Organizing Project, and material from their own organizing handbook, Out Against the Right.
To see the original versions, check out the column to the right!
Want a copy? Published by the Lesbian Avenger Documentary Project, the book is printed through IngramSpark, and distributed by Ingram Book Group which makes it available to booksellers worldwide, including independent bookstores, universities, and chains. If possible, support your local bookstore by ordering your copy through them. You can also visit your favorite website.
Still, an incredible organizing tool for any activist group, The Lesbian Avenger Handbook: A Handy Guide to Homemade Revolution made it possible for lesbians across the world to start Avenger chapters without having a huge pool of experienced activists, journalists, artists. Don't know how to run a meeting? You'll get complete instructions for that in the handbook. Never organized an action? You'll find step-by-step instructions from brainstorming, to writing press release, designing flyers, and even dealing with cops.
The Lesbian Avenger Handbook: A Handy Guide to Homemade Revolution, 2nd Edition, 1993 (pdf)
LACROP: Out Against the Right Handbook (single page) (html)
The Lesbian Avenger Handbook: A Handy Guide to Homemade Revolution, 3rd Edition, 2011 (html)
Complete text of the most widely distributed handbook. This scan shows a handbook a little worse for the wear, but is adequate for researchers.
The resource for grassroots organizing. (Click here for multiple page format)
The same step-by-step hand book with a brief preface, and small updates focused on the internet and social media.
