Camille Paglia (the lesbian feminist) interviewed by Dan Savage, a charming fella who once licked the doorknob of the hotel room where a politician was housed to contaminate him with a flu he had at the time as retaliation for the latter's opposition to gay marriage.

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Savage: You misunderstand ACT UP’s role. ACT UP is the shock troops of the AIDS activist movement. ACT UP creates dialogue by being obnoxious, being strident. Then more mainstream groups come in after ACT UP has opened up an issue, and get the credit for the change that ACT UP created the room for. ACT UP has put AIDS on the national agenda.

Paglia: But it’s not moving people spiritually. We have to consider whether the political gains are worth the political loss. In other words, you can’t just say, we’re gaining, gaining, gaining when there’s this reaction going in the other direction and people are getting fag-bashed in the street. We have a bad situation now where resentments against gay activists are never allowed to be expressed in the media. The media has capitulated. ACT UP is running rough-shod over the media. Moderate voices criticizing gay tactics are never allowed to speak. What is the result of this? This widespread resentment goes underground and moves to the right and what you get is these horrible people like Patrick Buchanan and David Duke.

Savage: So gay people, by being activists, are creating David Dukes?

Paglia: No, no, what I’m saying is whenever there are buried popular resentments that a liberal establishment will not allow to be expressed, you get these horrible people who are opportunists who are the only ones who dare to express. And what happens? You get this sympathy on the part of ordinary people who are not conservative that finally there’s someone out there who is expressing their views. That is a disaster, it led to the rise of Hitler. Right now we have a silencing. Okay?
[Camille Paglia: Boy, she sure talks fast, The Stranger's edition of 28 September thru 4 October 1992]

Here's an excerpt from an interview she made three years later for Playboy's magazine, discussing about race and IQ, a subject that will rejoice more TA members than the obnoxious tactics of gay activists...

PLAYBOY: What do you think of Murray's book The Bell Curve?

PAGLIA: If you want to see a good example of the folly of leftist censorship, here it is. This same issue--that blacks are mentally inferior--was circulated by William Shockley some years ago. Shockley and Arthur Jensen were shouted down, harassed and ultimately silenced. Consequently, this entire issue of genetic differences between the races was driven underground. Neutral or moderate or even liberal investigators were driven out of the field. Twenty-five years later it reemerges, but now it is exclusively attached to a conservative agenda. The problem I have with the book's conclusion is that it has no resemblance whatsoever to my experience as an academic. In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous. The failure of this book to address different definitions of intelligence is appalling. Also, for this book to appear at this moment is terrible. It's the last thing we need--something that further divides us. But once again, the left cannot deal with it.
[Camille Paglia interview, Playboy, May 1995]