A letter to the Boston Globe, April 29, 1993:

In fact, Globe coverage minimally touched on the array of weekend-long events, both somber and celebratory, surrounding Sunday's march—dances, religious services, rallies such as the Saturday night Dyke March, the largest women-only march in Washington for lesbian lives. This demonstration culminated at the Washington Monument, where activists from the group Lesbian Avengers ate fire amid thousands of women who chanted, "The fire will not consume us; we'll use it to better our lives."

[Ed.: The world's tallest freestanding masonry structure, the Washington Monument is also one of the most conspicuous phallic symbols ever erected.]

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