“…I knew that I was gay in every bone of my body. So I did the only thing I could do. I started the movement.”

Kathy Acker: Where does she get off?
Context: I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing. And about sex.
Writing for me is about my freedom. When I was a kid, my parents were like monsters to me, and the world extended from them. They were horrible. And I was this good little girl — I didn't have the guts to oppose them. They told me what to do and how to be. So the only time I could have any freedom or joy was when I was alone in my room. Writing is what I did when I was alone with no one watching me or telling me what to do. I could do whatever I wanted. So writing was really associated with body pleasure — it was the same thing. It was like the only thing I had.

1997 interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOss3w1LH1g

Steve Pratt (April 14, 2007) "Straight talking", The Northern Echo, p. 18.
2000s

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Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

From a tape recording (1977-11-18) to be played in the event of his assassination, quoted in Randy Shilts, The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (1982), p. 276