Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger (30 page)
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Authors: Kelly Cogswell
Tags: #Lesbian Author, #Lesbans, #Feminism
Frozen but cheerful at the shrine to Hattie Mae Cohens and Brian Mock, which also became a shrine for Marsha P. Johnson, trans activist and drag queen. Center foreground, Marlene; from left, Pat, me, Jennifer, Andrea, and Lysander.
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Lesbian Avengers eat fire in front of the White House in the first-ever Dyke March.
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The Thespian Avengers getting laughs at the Gertrude Stein action: “Pussy, how pretty you are.”
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You think you can ignore lesbians? Not on our watch.
Cathy Chang leads the Radio Mega action. Melanie (peeking from behind), then Anne-christine d’Adesky, Belkis, Ana, and me.
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“Prohibido Olvidar” (Forbidden to Forget) in Puerto Rico, 1998.
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Stunned on our roof with my neighbor, Sally. Soon to be frantic about Ana, who had gone downtown to cover the story for our zine,
The Gully.
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On the job photographing La Barbe, after they beard Marianne one Fourteenth of July.
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Sneaking a kiss from Ana at the 2010 NYC Dyke March.
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Born in Louisville, Kentucky,
Kelly Cogswell
is a journalist, blogger, and prize-winning columnist at
Gay City News
in New York. A longtime lesbian activist, she worked briefly with the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization in New York before becoming a founding member of the Lesbian Avengers in 1992. She cofounded and edited
The Gully online magazine,
offering “queer views on everything.”
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