“The trouble is, SMers are allowing themselves to be defined by what they are not. We think, "Oh, so many people believe that we're all murderers and rapists, and we have to explain that we're not!" Uh — so, a slogan for the gay civil rights movement should be "Normal, Non-threatening and Not After Your Children"?”

— Laura Antoniou

Source: "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny", p. 14

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