I worked very hard to try and figure out what I thought and I believed that we were going to succeed and that revolutions would happen globally and w….

Is it different to come out now than it was to come out thirty-five years ago? Sometimes. But if you come out now and you come from poverty and you c….

In some ways, the challenge of staying political is to stay a dreamer at the same time..

The economy is not removed from the way you live out your private life..

In women's shelters the kind of clothes that women are given to go to job interviews are all girl clothes: little heels, little skirt. If you're gend….

No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst. Every office building is full of the illicit affairs, the unwanted pregnancies, t….

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

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….

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'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….

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 ….

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….

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….

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

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….