Gay people are not in the habit of thinking of ourselves as leading our civilization, and yet we do.

Menstrual blood is the only source of blood that is not traumatically induced. Yet in modern society, this is the most hidden blood, the one so rarely spoken of and almost never seen, except privately by women.

Gay culture is far from 'marginal,' being rather 'intersectional,' the conduits between unlike beings.

He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage, thunderman, all-in-green, mountain strider, keeper of forests, my-love-rides

From my mother, a rock, / I have learned that rocks give / most of all.

We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it was subterranean and secret.

The walls of the closet are guarded by the dogs of terror, and the inside of the closet is a house of mirrors.