Lesbian Avenger Salad

 With the summer weather upon us lets check out some new salads. This is pride month with the anniversary of Stonewall on the 27^th. Traditionally just before the Pride marches were the Dyke Marches. This year looks like both will be canceled. However we can not afford to forget about them. We must find new ways for these events to go forward. This salad is named in honor of The Lesbian Avengers. Read about this important group.

A cool summer salad featuring turkey, tomato, cucumber, avocado, along with using a mix of non-fat yogurt along with reduced fat mayonnaise. Not quite a Cobb salad but sure to be a full meal. This should help you become more comfortable with your post sequestered body.

Ingredients:

½ inch slice of turkey breast

1 avocado

4 slices of thick sliced bacon

4 roma tomatoes

4 small English cucumbers

½ cup diced cheese

small red onion chopped

5oz tub plain non fat Greek style yogurt

same of mayonnaise

½ Tsp garlic powder

½ lb elbow macaroni

Directions:

Fix pasta according to box.

While that cooks:

Microwave the bacon between paper towels for about 1 to 2 minutes on high. (Between crisp and limp)

Dice the turkey breast

Cut up the tomatoes

peel and cut up the cucumbers

dice the red onion

If needed cut up the cheese into cubes.

With a sharp knife cut into the avocado till you reach the seed.

 Turn the piece until you have cut it all the way around down to the seed. Twist off half.

Chop down into the seed with the knife just until it is stuck and twist the seed out.

With a large spoon, score the meat out of the skin. 

The “meat” will pop out. Cut this into dices. Cover with plastic wrap or it will start to turn brown. Also helps if you squirt it with a bit of lemon juice.

Cut up the green pepper into small cubes.

In a small bowl spoon in the yogurt, fill the empty tub with mayonnaise, stir in the garlic powder. Set aside.

When pasta is done and drained well. Set aside in a sealed container for the refrigerator.

In another container, stir in the turkey, tomatoes, cucumbers, red onion and avocado. Last add the cheese cubes. Stir in the dressing until well mixed, cover and let sit in refrigerator for the flavors to blend.

When ready to serve, only spoon out what you need for the meal from each container and mix just before serving. 

Any salad can suffer from having the dressing disappear into the pasta!

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The Lesbian Avengers

1992

In direct response to many hateful actions from local governments and dismissal by the federal government, a group of lesbian-identified women in New York City formed a direct action group called the Lesbian Avengers.

Six long-time activists: (Ana Simo, Sarah Schulman, Maxine Wolfe, Anne-christine d’Adesky, Marie Honan and Anne Maguire) created the Avengers to focus on raising visibility for queer women and to fight homophobic initiatives.

Their first action took place on September 9, 1992 when a Queens NYC-based right-wing group was attempting to keep elementary school students from learning a more diverse multi-cultural curriculum. Specifically a queer-inclusive referred to as “Childen of the Rainbow.”

The Avengers staged a demonstration, enlisting a marching band to take to the streets of Queens, handing out balloons to the students, encouraging them to “ask about lesbian lives.” The Avengers wore T-shirts reading “I was a lesbian child,” and a month later, held a similar protest outside of the Board and Education in Brooklyn. In February, they prepared a songbook of lesbian love songs and performed in front of the home of Rainbow Curriculum opponent Mary Cummins.

This first action exemplified the Avenger approach. They established a strong visual presence with balloons and marching band, offered flyers clearly explaining to passersby their support for the curriculum and denouncing its opponents, and, as in all subsequent actions, made great efforts to reach print and broadcast media.

They also demonstrated without permits, refusing to ask for permission to express themselves. Organizer Kelly Cogswell later elaborated on this principle during the 1994 International Dyke March, "We ask for a permit; they can say no."

This simple, but taboo-busting gesture launched an extraordinary movement that spoke to lesbians everywhere.

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."

Aware of the power of the press, the Lesbian Avengers sometimes didn't court it, but attacked it. They invaded the offices of Self magazine when that publication planned a trip to Colorado despite a lesbian and gay boycott of the state for hate legislation, and in the resulting media coverage were misnamed "The Lesbian Agenda."

Use of fire and fire-eating became something of a symbol for the Lesbian Avengers, and spread from the New York group to many others. The New York Times, in one of its few articles on the Avengers, explained:

[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.

At the Washington Dyke March held during the anniversary celebrations of the Lesbian and Gay March on Washington in 1993, the Lesbian Avengers ate fire in front of the White House surrounded by a crowd of an estimated 20,000 lesbians.

According to co-founder Sarah Schulman, "It was at the 1993 March on Washington that the Avengers and ACT-UP Women's Network created the first Dyke March -- with 20,000 women, marching together with no permit. These participants brought the marches home to their cities and countries and created a new tradition."

The 1993 March on Washington, held at the end of April, was followed in June by what was to become an Avenger tradition, the Dyke March held a day or two before LGBT Pride.

The second New York City Dyke March, coinciding with the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, Gay Games IV, and international human rights conferences, was actually an International Dyke March, attracting as many as 20,000 marchers from all over the world. The Dyke March tradition continues in many cities, including Mexico City.

In its heyday, the Lesbian Avengers had as many as fifty-five independent chapters, locally controlled and operated.

Before the Lesbian Avengers were formed in 1992, homosexuality was still illegal in Kentucky.

Oregon was creating an anti-gay referendum called Measure 9. This was the same year that, 29-year-old black lesbian Hattie Mae Cohens and her gay male roommate, Brian Mock, were brutally murdered in Salem, OR.

Meanwhile, a clause prohibiting homophobic bullying in schools was turned over in Fairfax County, Virginia because the school board was concerned about promoting homosexuality.

Florida maintained there would be no protections for LGBTs, and hate crimes were at an all-time high in Los Angeles.

These early radical actions from out and proud lesbian feminists had a direct impact on how LGBTQ women have since come together to build and fight for the visibility and safety of their community.

Although the Lesbian Avengers eventually disbanded, many of the leaders have continued with the legacy as activists, writers, filmmakers and teachers. A documentary (“Lesbian Avengers Eat Fire, Too”), a memoir (Kelly Cogswell‘s “Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger“) and extensive site chronicling the Avengers’ herstory help to preserve the memory the group’s influential work.

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