“Do we now fight for the kind of passionate belief that I have about sexuality, about the importance of the erotic, of people actually getting to fulfill desire and not be punished because they have it? No, we're nowhere near close to that. We're dealing with an AIDS epidemic that continues out of control globally and in this country, NO, THIS IS NOT the movement that I am fighting to create. Has it succeeded in places that are very significant? Yes it has - and it would be foolish to say that those things don't matter.” PeopleKindCountryMatterWould BeDesireFightingBeliefMovementImportancePassionateSexualityAidsFoolishSignificantEroticEpidemicsAids Epidemic Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“I think that the power of a political vision is deeply engaged with the possibility of how you can live out the liberation that you seek and part of that vision is very much about desire, about the erotic.” ThinkingPoliticalDesireVisionPossibilityLiberationEngagedErotic Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“I'm a high femme lesbian who loves butch women. That erotic identity has an enormous amount to do with how I live my life, who I live my life with and what it is we can or can't do.” IdentityAmountEnormousLiving My LifeEroticI Live My LifeFemme Author:Amber Hollibaugh