Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

Saying someone is gay who is gay no longer constitutes defamation or slander or libel. You cannot defame someone by telling the truth.

Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mean dislike, or feel uncomfortable with. I mean hate. Downright hate. Down and dirty hate.

The only way we'll have real pride is when we demand recognition of a culture that isn't just sexual. It's all there--all throughhistory we've been there; but we have to claim it, and identify who was in it, and articulate what's in our minds and hearts and all our creative contributions to this earth. And until we do that, and until we organise ourselves block by neighborhood by city by state into a united visible community that fights back, we're doomed.

I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let go.

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.