On Heterosexuality

"Well, you know, minority politics has been a lot easier to sell than to just say, “Being human ought to get you human dignity,” full stop. If you can pin down the difference, if you can make the difference the salient issue, it somehow makes it easier for people to stomach the fact that they can’t go out and just beat people over the head. I don’t know why that is. I find it intensely frustrating."

- Hanne Blank,(http://www.salon.com/2012/01/22/the_invention_of_the_heterosexual/)

And,

"I do think that the issue of gay marriage is a very interesting one to look at in the context of the history of sexuality, because what I think it testifies to is not so much the tendency that non-heterosexuality has to destabilize heterosexual culture, but the incredible depth of the investment that our culture and our government have in regulating the kinds of relationships that people have in their lives."

Also, Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality - http://www.amazon.com/Straight-Surprisingly-Short-History-Hetrosexuality/dp/0807044431

why do people say
they absorb things like a sponge?
one squeeze and all's lost