Launched in New York City in 1992 the Lesbian Avengers rejected the picket line and ordinary demo for mediasavvy nonviolent direct action.ampnbspThey were superheroes arriving to make the world safe for baby dykes everywhere warriors with capes and shields doing a line dance dykes Lusting for Power pushing a giant bed float down Sixth Avenue in New York with lesbians on it nationallyambitious Avengers eating fire in front of a hostile White House lovers reuniting a statue of Alice B. Toklas with Gertrude Stein then waltzing in the snow in Bryant Park. And homos who shamelessly chanted Ten percent is not enough recruit recruit recruit.ampnbspIt only took a few years for the Lesbian Avengers to grow into a global movement with sixty autonomous chapters worldwide all working for the visibility and survival of lesbians and all sharing an irreverent direct action aesthetic eagerly dipping into agitprop and advertising and theater in ways that still feel groundbreaking today.ampnbspKey to their successthe tools they developed to help lesbians understand and reproduce the Avenger action. One was the 1993 documentary video Lesbian Avengers Eat Fire Too which offered the why the who and the what featuring interviews with Avengers and sharing actions from their first year.ampnbspAnother was this book The Lesbian Avenger Handbook A Handy Guide to Homemade Revolution which offers stepbystep instructions for everything from how to hold a meeting to how to envision an action and wrangle the pressexpertise gleaned from Avengers working in journalism advertising art and theater as well as longtime activists who honed their skills protesting the Viet Nam war the abuse of farmworkers forced sterilization of women of color and bans on abortion and whod already in some cases led civil disobedience in ACTUP.ampnbspThis new edition of The Lesbian Avenger Handbook offers the bulk of this extraordinary resource unchanged though it acknowledged advances in technology for activists still usi