The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion.

You can't be suspicious of a tree or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

What gay culture is before it is anything else before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain is a culture of friendship.