Basing your identity on sexuality is like building a house on a foundation of pudding. - D. Travers Scott

~ Carol Queen

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The whole point of my gender transition was to free myself up. If something feels good, I'm not going to stop doing it because it doesn't fit someone else's notion of what a man is. -David Harrison

~ Carol Queen

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Gay male and lesbian culture is obsessed with purity of identity as the only basis for figuring out who you can trust or dance with. -Pat Califia

~ Carol Queen

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...there are more models than the heterosexual one for a male and female who want to exchange erotic energy.

~ Carol Queen

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It's difficult to make the argument that one female fist inserted into one male ass--or, for that matter, dozens or even hundreds of fists inserted into as many asses--can really make a difference for, say, lesbian mothers fighting for custody of their children. -Katherine Raymond

~ Carol Queen

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