Amber Hollibaugh

Being respectful of extraordinary work that has happened in the last thirty-five years is not the same thing as it reflecting my…

— Amber Hollibaugh

I think that white people are not seen as people with racial histories.

— Amber Hollibaugh

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

— 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…

— Amber Hollibaugh

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

— Amber Hollibaugh

Everyone's always told about politics you have to be practical, but I actually think that's not true, you actually have to hold…

— 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…

— 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…

— Amber Hollibaugh

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

— 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…

— Amber Hollibaugh

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

— Amber Hollibaugh

I worked very hard to try and figure out what I thought and I believed that we were going to succeed and…

— Amber Hollibaugh

When people give up sex and give up love or they only have love in the context of tradition then I think…

— Amber Hollibaugh

I think desire gives us - imagination - as well as actually often we pay a terrible price for it. Women are…

— Amber Hollibaugh

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

— Amber Hollibaugh

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

— 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…

— Amber Hollibaugh

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

— Amber Hollibaugh

I feel really - actually - quite terrified about the world as it now exists. The kind of sucking the world dry…

— 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…

— Amber Hollibaugh

I was a commie and I fought about Marxism and class and race and it informed everything I did.

— Amber Hollibaugh

To take on the question of race in America and believe that you could transform this country so that it would actually…

— Amber Hollibaugh

To actually be possessed or possess someone in a way that is unimaginable when you're a young person struggling about your body…

— Amber Hollibaugh

For a political movement to not understand that sexuality is a profound component of both how people are oppressed and how people…

— Amber Hollibaugh

In a different moment, in the 60s and 70s, I did believe we were going to succeed - that we were going…

— Amber Hollibaugh