Amber Hollibaugh Quotes

• We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Gains, Accepting, Refusal

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• Everyone's always told about politics you have to be practical, but I actually think that's not true, you actually have to hold to a dream... and desire is part of that dream.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Dream, Thinking, Desire

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• Cuando la gente renuncia al sexo y al amor, o sólo tiene amor en el contexto de la tradición, creo que estamos perdiendo la oportunidad de decirnos unos a otros que construir la comunidad, construir el deseo en comunidad nos da a todos la posibilidad de aprender a ser quienes siempre hemos estado aterrorizados de descubrir que éramos, y no avergonzarnos de ello, y no tener nuestro deseo y nuestro amor incrustados en la vergüenza es algo profundo y es parte de lo que impulsa el movimiento.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Sex, Giving Up, Opportunity

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• Sex may be private in the way that you make love, but it's not private in the context of the world we live in.

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  Sex, Making Love, World

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• 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.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Thinking, Political, Erotic

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• We're targeted as LGBTQ people because we make people nervous around sex and we practice desire or have the possibility of practicing desire in magical and very, very profound ways. We shouldn't be giving up the possibility of articulating the claim of our body and the claim of our desire as something distinctive and erotically profound.

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  Sex, Giving Up, Practice

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• 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.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Sueño, Realidad, Gente

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• Issues of the economy are profoundly affected by how you live out sexual orientation and gender identity.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Issues, Identity, Economy

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• I think social change work is some of the most extraordinary dreaming that any of us have the possibility of doing.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Dream, Thinking, Possibility

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• 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.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Struggle, Issues, Documentation

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• 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.

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  Lgbt, Pay, Nervous

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• 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."

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  Sex, Fighting, Giving

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• I feel really - actually - quite terrified about the world as it now exists. The kind of sucking the world dry for a dollar seems to me to be even worse (though it was hard for me to imagine 30 years ago that it could get worse) and the idea that bling and profit over human beings is really more and more a credible idea; people don't even examine it with any kind of question: I find that really terrifying.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Años, Ideas, Personas

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• 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.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Thinking, Practice, Giving

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• Mi padre es gitano. Viajaba en caravanas y fue marcado por el Ku Klux Klan. En mi familia hay una historia de raza que tiene mucho que ver con las otras cosas que mencionas sobre la pobreza, la clase, el acceso o la falta de acceso.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Father, Race, Class

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• 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.

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  Girl, Jobs, Clothes

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• To take on the question of race in America and believe that you could transform this country so that it would actually be a place that was welcoming for everyone that was here, including dealing with the history of slavery and the kind of oppression this country is based on, that's an amazing moment to begin to find your own political ideals.

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  País, Creer, Raza

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• 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."

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  Mean, Impact, White

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• Frankly, sex work and stripping is very good if you have radical politics. You can go to meetings all night long.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Sex, Night, Long

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• 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.

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  Pregnancy, Reality, Office

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• I became a part of the Civil Rights movement early on and that has really shaped a great deal of my thinking.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Thinking, Rights, Movement

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• Soy una lesbiana high femme a la que le encantan las mujeres butch. Esa identidad erótica tiene mucho que ver con cómo vivo mi vida, con quién vivo mi vida y qué es lo que podemos o no podemos hacer.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Erotic, Identity, Living My Life

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• In a different moment, in the 60s and 70s, I did believe we were going to succeed - that we were going to create a revolution, that America was going to be a completely transformed nation state and that there would be an amazingly different set of beliefs; that this country would reflect. And I thought that that was the fulfillment of the American democratic dream and I believed in it passionately.

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  Dream, Country, Believe

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• Being respectful of extraordinary work that has happened in the last thirty-five years is not the same thing as it reflecting my values. I'm not sorry that gays can now enter the military and I'm not sorry that we can marry, but frankly I come from a moment in time, a radical vision in time that never made marriage or the military my criteria of success.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Sorry, Military, Gay

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• 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.

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  Country, Fighting, Epidemics

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