“Frankly, sex work and stripping is very good if you have radical politics. You can go to meetings all night long.” IfsLongNightSexMeetingsVery GoodRadicalAll NightStrippingSex Work Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“Is it different to come out now than it was to come out thirty-five years ago? Sometimes. But if you come out now and you come from poverty and you come from racism, you come from the terror of communities that are immigrant communities or communities where you're already a moving target because of who you are, this is not a place where it's any easier to be LGBT even if there's a community center in every single borough.” IfsYearsDifferentSometimesMovingCommunityPovertyFiveEasierRacismYears AgoWho You AreTerrorThirtyFive YearsImmigrantsTargetLgbtCommunity Centers Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“If you're a person with resources who is LGBT, you may have some problems with that - but, frankly, you'll probably have an apartment. If you're poor, if you're transgender, if you're a person of color, if you're HIV positive and you're homeless, the ability to act on desire, the ability to be safely somewhere to make love with anybody that you want to make love with is unlikely.” IfsWantMayPersonsProblemDesireAbilityPoorColorResourcesLgbtApartmentMaking LoveHomelessUnlikelyTransgenderHivHiv Positive Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“If you struggle with issues of documentation, issues of your health care, issues of whether or not you'll be punished for being open about who you are, those things affect how you can be employed or not employed, how you can get an apartment or not get an apartment, how it is that you feel free or not free.” IfsFeelsCareStruggleIssuesWho You AreHealth CareApartmentEmployedDocumentation Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“If I'm fighting for the possibility of having a kind of desire and possibility, that right now is not too likely, it gives me a different kind of engagement with the future, than if I say, "sex doesn't matter; it's private."” IfsGivingKindDifferentMatterDesireFightingSexPossibilityRight NowGive MeEngagementDifferent Kinds Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“I think desire gives us - imagination - as well as actually often we pay a terrible price for it. Women are punished around their sexuality and perceived to be immoral if they practice a certain kind of promiscuous sexuality. It's a very different thing still if you're a guy, if you're a woman and you're straight.” IfsThinkingGivingWellsKindStillsDifferentDesireGuyCertainImaginationPayPracticeTerribleSexualityDifferent ThingsImmoralPromiscuous Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“If you can't do anything but fight, so every single solitary thing, every single solitary day, then the privilege of dreaming becomes something that only a few people have.” PeopleIfsDreamFightingPrivilegeSolitary Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“In women's shelters the kind of clothes that women are given to go to job interviews are all girl clothes: little heels, little skirt. If you're gender nonconforming, you're a lesbian, you're not going to put those clothes on to go to a job interview.” IfsKindLittlesJobsGirlGivenClothesGenderInterviewsHeelsShelterSkirtsJob Interview Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“There's a profound price to the incorrect assumption that LGBTQ movements are white, male and wealthy. That is not a good thing to be dealing with if you're in the midst of a conversation where the recession profoundly impacts you at the same time because people say well, "Really? What's your issue? I mean you all have money. You all have access."” PeopleIfsWellsMeanWhiteIssuesMovementConversationImpactGood ThingsProfoundMalesAccessAssumptionMidstWealthyRecessionsIncorrect Assumptions Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“If you want to be backed by corporations so that you're elected mayor, then it's going to be very problematic for you to support a living wage campaign that would shift the minimum wage to something else.” IfsWantSupportCampaignsCorporationsMinimumMayorsMinimum WageLiving Wage Author:Amber Hollibaugh
