Actions
The Lesbian Avengers generally avoided traditional picket lines, sit-ins, and petitions, aiming instead for actions that created stronger, original images more likely to attract both media coverage and new members.
The Lesbian Avenger Handbook encouraged particular attention to the visual elements of the demonstration. "It should let people know clearly and quickly who we are and why we are there. NY Avengers have used a wide range of visuals such as fire eating, a twelve-foot shrine, a huge bomb, a ten-foot plaster statue, flaming torches, etc. The more fabulous, witty, and original, the better."
The targets of the Lesbian Avengers changed often. They have taken on homophobic school boards, misogyny in the gay community, and anti-gay referendums. Sometimes their positions seem to change, as well. In the early years, the group opposed attempts to legitimize gay marriage, protesting the notion at an Andrew Sullivan book signing in 1995. By 2008, the Avengers were protesting in favor of marriage equality, and in opposition to Proposition 8.
The New York Lesbian Avengers also developed a Lesbian Avenger Civil Rights Organizing Project, traveling across the country to fight anti-gay referendum and ballot propositions.
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