Binary Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Is there a term that one might use rather than say that one is homosexual? Is there a different physical gender and symbolic dimension? I'm thinking of Adrienne Rich's notion of the lesbian spectrum. It's not as if sexual identity is binary: one must be either homo or hetero.”

Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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