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114 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1977
There still exists a faint memory of the past when the faggots and their friends were free. The memory lives in the faggots’ bones. The memory appears at night when the bones are quietest.
“The faggots and their friends and the women who love women know that for a while they can find some safety in the confusion they can create. They have some time to develop their resources to survive.
Yet at some point, collectively, they will begin to know that the men will continue as long as they continue. They can play with the men's categories to try to neutralize the men's guns. Yet this will not make them free. They begin to know, from the inside, that they cannot be free until this dance is stopped. The men will not stop for they have nothing else to do. This dance brings the men riches, power and fame and they will keep it going as long as they are able. The faggots and their friends and the women who love women can, they begin to know, stop and do no-thing. That is something for them to do. […] They will then be close to doing no-thing and therefore close to not being what the men created them to be. They will cease to be other and the men will begin to fear for their own sanity.
The men's needs are strong and overwhelming. They need the faggots and their friends in order to know who they are not. But the faggots and their friends will no longer need the men.”