Feature Image Photo by Mark Reinstein/Corbis via Getty Images

You are jostled awake to find yourself among a large crowd of marching queers. You are buoyed on by what seems like tens of thousands of protesters, shouting and chanting. Someone thrusts a pamphlet at you, with the words “Dyke Manifesto” printed on: a rallying cry for all lesbians to wake up! You realise you must be in the first ever Dyke March. organised by the Lesbian Avengers!

This all seems pretty cool, but uncertainty ripples through the crowd as you reach the final destination of your march: the Whitehouse. You locate the organisers, who are in a mild panic because their fire-eating sticks have gone missing. Without those, they won’t be able to perform their most striking act of protest! What’s even worse is that it appears that the fire-eating sticks aren’t just missing: they’ve been stolen by a mole who has infiltrated the Lesbian Avengers in a bid to take them down!

Members of the Lesbian Avengers eat fire during their protest march in front of the White House Washington DC, April 24, 1993 (Photo by Mark Reinstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Can you help root out the mole and ensure the Lesbian Avengers have a successful fire-eating protest in front of the Whitehouse!?

Ana, Beth and Carrie were the last ones seen with the fire-eating sticks, but only one of them is guilty of stealing them. Each makes a single statement about whole stole them. The thief is lying, but the other two are telling the truth.

Ana says: “Beth stole them!”
Beth says: “Carrie stole them!”
Carrie says: “I didn’t steal them!”

Who stole the fire-eating sticks?

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