"The second decade of the twenty-first century—just 150 years after Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and Karl-Maria Kurtbeny, ear…"

"Shame...is a first rate form of social control. Shame is what keeps us in line, what prevents us from discovering not…"

"in many ways my personal life (which I wrote about a lot) was really a public life. This may not be the case for many…"

"many LGBTQ people did create art (writing, painting etc) that was recognized if their sexual identity was not well kn…"

"The old saying that “history is written by the winners” is – to some degree – true for a great deal of traditional, w…"

"Full citizenship was, and to a large degree still is, predicated on keeping 'unacceptable' behavior private. This com…"

"There are many times that these representations – novels, songs, films, graphic novels, tv shows – make us laugh or c…"

"Books that get banned – historically and now in many, many states in the U.S. – are banned not because they are immor…"

"At its best “art” is subversive and can change the world. Thus, making it not only a viable threat, but a dangerous one."

"Anything that liberates is not without risk."