Sex may be private in the way that you make love, but it's not private in the context of the world we live in..

I think desire gives us - imagination - as well as actually often we pay a terrible price for it. Women are punished around their sexuality and perce….

If I'm fighting for the possibility of having a kind of desire and possibility, that right now is not too likely, it gives me a different kind of eng….

I didn't come out and pay a really painful price often, to be LGBT, to not claim my sexuality at the same time. It's not all right with me to not tal….

When people give up sex and give up love or they only have love in the context of tradition then I think we're missing the opportunity of saying to e….

If you're a person with resources who is LGBT, you may have some problems with that - but, frankly, you'll probably have an apartment. If you're poor….

If you struggle with issues of documentation, issues of your health care, issues of whether or not you'll be punished for being open about who you ar….

I'm a high femme lesbian who loves butch women. That erotic identity has an enormous amount to do with how I live my life, who I live my life with an….

In a different moment, in the 60s and 70s, I did believe we were going to succeed - that we were going to create a revolution, that America was going….

To actually be possessed or possess someone in a way that is unimaginable when you're a young person struggling about your body and whether anybody w….

I think social change work is some of the most extraordinary dreaming that any of us have the possibility of doing..

There's a profound price to the incorrect assumption that LGBTQ movements are white, male and wealthy. That is not a good thing to be dealing with if….

For a political movement to not understand that sexuality is a profound component of both how people are oppressed and how people dream, is not to re….

I became a part of the Civil Rights movement early on and that has really shaped a great deal of my thinking..

Everyone's always told about politics you have to be practical, but I actually think that's not true, you actually have to hold to a dream... and des….

I was a commie and I fought about Marxism and class and race and it informed everything I did..

If you can't do anything but fight, so every single solitary thing, every single solitary day, then the privilege of dreaming becomes something that ….

We're impacted by all the intersections of our identities and those then are reflected on what our choices are..

I think that the power of a political vision is deeply engaged with the possibility of how you can live out the liberation that you seek and part of ….

Being respectful of extraordinary work that has happened in the last thirty-five years is not the same thing as it reflecting my values. I'm not sorr….

To take on the question of race in America and believe that you could transform this country so that it would actually be a place that was welcoming ….