This Desert Town Was Man's Own Miracle

Coming Out, All The Way Out, Is Offered More And More As The Political Solution To Our Oppression. The Argument Goes That, If People Could See Just How Many Of Us There Are, Some In Very Important Places, The Negative Stereotype Would Vanish Overnight. ...it Is Far More Realistic To Suppose That, If The Tenth Of The Population That Is Gay Became Visible Tomorrow, The Panic Of The Majority Of People Would Inspire Repressive Legislation Of A Sort That Would Shock Even The Pessimists Among Us.

This Desert Town Was Man's Own Miracle Of Pure Purposelessness.

If We Don't Bear Witness As Citizens, As People, As Individuals, The Right That We Have Had To Life Is Sacrificed. There Is A Silence, Instead Of A Speaking Presence.

The Message Of Women's Liberation Is That Women Can Love Each Other And Ourselves Against Our Degrading Education.

Now That Our Sexual Experience Is Increasingly Available To Us As A Subject For Contemplation, We Have To Extend Our Language To Express Our New Consciousness Until We Have As Many Words For Sexuality As The Eskimo Has For Snow, That Pervasive, Beautiful, And Mortal Climate In Which We All Live.