By coming out to ourselves, we free up the energy we spent keeping a part of ourselves hidden.

Boy lovers and the lesbians who have young lovers... are not child molesters. The child abusers are priests, teachers, therapists, cops and parents who force their staid morality onto the young people in their custody.

If your relationship with someone is based on your desire for them to change into something radically different, there's no real closeness there, no real communication.

As an activist, you gotta pick something that's particularly interesting to you and go for it - because there's no shortage of things to do. And it's sort of a long-term commitment. Activism is for life.

When you're hurting another person, past a certain point you're cracking them open and whatever's inside them gets all over you. So you should kinda check out whether you want that to happen.

By coming out to ourselves, we free up the energy we spent keeping a part of ourselves hidden.

Responsibility without power is a really bad deal.