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

Issues of the economy are profoundly affected by how you live out sexual orientation and gender identity.

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 desire is part of that dream.

We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.

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.

Do we now fight for the kind of passionate belief that I have about sexuality, about the importance of the erotic, of people actually getting to fulfill desire and not be punished because they have it? No, we're nowhere near close to that. We're dealing with an AIDS epidemic that continues out of control globally and in this country, NO, THIS IS NOT the movement that I am fighting to create. Has it succeeded in places that are very significant? Yes it has - and it would be foolish to say that those things don't matter.

I think that white people are not seen as people with racial histories.