Born: 1943, Cuba
Died: NA
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA
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Since its founding in 1983, the LGBT Community Center in New York City has served as a gathering space for several LGBTQ groups, including the Lesbian Avengers.
Cofounded by Cuban activist and playwright Ana Maria Simo in 1992, the Lesbian Avengers used direct-action tactics (nonviolent demonstrations such as marches and kiss-ins) to increase lesbian visibility.
Simo was an experienced activist. In 1976, she and actress-director Magaly Alabau created Medusa’s Revenge. It was the first lesbian theater in New York City and the world with a permanent home, founded by and for lesbian immigrant Latinas.