Year after year I continue to realize that the facts of my life are irrelevant to [their straight friends] and that I am only half listened to, that I am an appendage to the doings of a greater world, a world of power and privilege, of the laws of installation, a world of exclusion. “That’s not true,” argue my straight friends. There is the one certainty in the politics of power: those left out of it beg for inclusion, while the insiders claim that they already are.

— Let the Record Show by Sarah Schulman (55%)