five9:

intelegencesector:

itsstuckyinmyhead:

itsstuckyinmyhead:

I was doing some digging in lgbt history i have discovered the lesbian avengers and oh my god 

they ate fire in front of the white house 

just in case you were wondering trans women were included!!

(x)

(x)

You have to read about these amazing, badass ladies. Fire eating became their symbol, here’s a blurb on its origin.

[It] grew out of tragedy. Last year, a lesbian and a gay man, Hattie Mae Cohens and Brian Mock, burned to death in Salem, Ore., after a Molotov cocktail was tossed into the apartment they shared. A month later, on Halloween, at a memorial to the victims in New York City, the Avengers (then newly organized) gave their response to the deaths. They ate fire, chanting, as they still do: “The fire will not consume us. We take it and make it our own.”

Just so everyone knows, today (Sept 9th) is the 25th anniversary of the Lesbian Avengers’ first public action!

from Wikipedia: ‘On their first action (September 9, 1992), the Lesbian Avengers targeted right-wing attempts to suppress a multicultural “Children of the Rainbow” curriculum for elementary schoolchildren. Ostensibly under attack for including lesbians and gay men in its lessons about diversity,[8] some activists like Ana Maria Simo charged that opponents, besides being homophobic, also had a racist agenda in battling the multicultural curriculum.[2]

Meeting in Queens School District 24 where the opposition to the “Rainbow Curriculum” was strongest, they paraded through the neighborhood with an all-lesbian marching band to a local elementary school where they gave out lavender balloons to children and their parents saying “Ask About Lesbian Lives.” They also wore tee-shirts reading, “I was a lesbian child.” [2]’