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Quote by Amber Hollibaugh

“We're impacted by all the intersections of our identities and those then are reflected on what our choices are.”

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Amber Hollibaugh is an American writer born in 1946. Her works cover a range of topics including gender, sexual orientation, and identity, known for her insightful analysis and critical thinking. more

“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.”

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Author:Amber Hollibaugh

“The economy is not removed from the way you live out your private life.”

Way Economy Private Life

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.”

Ifs Feels Care Struggle Issues Who You Are Health Care Apartment Employed Documentation

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.”

Thinking Political Desire Vision Possibility Liberation Engaged Erotic

Author:Amber Hollibaugh

“I didn't come out and pay a really painful price often, to be LGBT, to not claim my sexuality at the same time. It's not all right with me to not talk about it so I don't make anybody nervous.”

Pay Claims Painful Sexuality Nervous Lgbt

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.”

Identity Amount Enormous Living My Life Erotic I Live My Life Femme

Author:Amber Hollibaugh

“No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst. Every office building is full of the illicit affairs, the unwanted pregnancies, the crises that happen in human lives.”

Humans Reality Happens Political Desire Movement Building Office Crisis Affair Human Life Midst Pregnancy Unwanted Political Movements Office Buildings Unwanted Pregnancy

Author:Amber Hollibaugh

“I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.”

Sports Imagination Player Ordinary

Author:Imran Khan

“For a political movement to not understand that sexuality is a profound component of both how people are oppressed and how people dream, is not to recognize the reality of political power and where it's centered.”

People Dream Reality Political Movement Profound Sexuality Oppressed Components Political Power Political Movements

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."”

Ifs Giving Kind Different Matter Desire Fighting Sex Possibility Right Now Give Me Engagement Different Kinds

Author:Amber Hollibaugh

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