I want to be a witness to my own time because I've had a sneaking suspicion lately that I'm gonna live a lot longer than most of the people I meet. If I'm gonna be the only one still around to say what happened, I'd better pay close attention now.
Sarah SchulmanMy readers are 90 percent gay, and it's who I write for. I am not here to entertain straight people.
Sarah SchulmanSince Freud, people think you either want to be a man or hate men. You only exist in relationship to men.
Sarah SchulmanIf we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic.
Sarah SchulmanI went to my 30th high school reunion, and I could tell who was gay and who was straight because the gay people were like, 'Sarah, you've been doing so much,' and the straight people were like, 'So, Sarah, what have you been doing?
Sarah SchulmanHIV criminalization is a global trend, but surprisingly Canada has some of the worst HIV laws in the world - they have incarcerated 200 people to date who have not infected anyone, and half of them are black. This is emotional manipulation that began as an anti-immigrant measure and has devolved into an exploitation of sexual anxiety. It's a crisis of meaning.
Sarah Schulman