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If all gay men settled down into pairs like animals clambering into Noah's ark, a world of possibilities would disappear. A culture that embraces nonmonogamy, casual public sex, erotic art, sex toys, costuming and a theatrical attitude toward pleasure is a national treasure, not a shameful anachronism. Twenty years ago, who could have predicted that any gay activist worthy of the name would be preaching the same values as Anita Bryant?
--Sex activist-author Pat Catifia in the October POZ magazine, alluding to writers Larry Kramer, Gabriel Rotello, Michelangelo Signorite and Andrew Sullivan, among others.
The man who arranges himself in a sling, awaiting anointing with Crisco, has come in perfect love and trust like a child to baptism. Lust can be a sacrament that washes us clean of envy, pride and anomie, and returns us to daily life with a satisfied heart, renewed hope and
greater compassion. The mouth is not the only orifice that generates poetry; we must learn to listen to the hymns of our other openings, other lips. If "gay literature" did no more than rescue our genitals from revulsion, and celebrate them instead, it would be heroic.
-- Pat Califia in POZ magazine
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