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

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

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 tribal attitude said, and continues to say, that Gay people are especially empowered because we are able to identify with both sexes and can see into more than one world at once, having the capacity to see from more than one point of view at a time. And that is also an Indian way of seeing.

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

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

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