Monday, June 23, 2014

US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 14, Cultural Wars of the 1980s (Con't)

What Jesse Helms has done has backfired. I now know more about lesbian sexuality than I had hoped to know, quite honestly, because I have seen artist upon artist find the authentic voice that has been told it cannot speak out. And because they have defined what the territory is, we're now in their territory, pushing, pushing, pushing.

—An activist quoted in Steven Dubin, Arresting Images (p. 248)
Introduction to (and explanation of) this quote series can be found here.  Read this tag to see all of them.

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