The speech was delivered in Griffith Park Old Zoo in Los Angeles as part of the Foundation for Art Resources, "SaFARi" art exhibit. Following is a transcript of what was said:

"In his official history of Griffith Park, historian Mike Eberts writes: 'The park has long been associated with sexual activity – real and fictional, heterosexual and homosexual.' Nonetheless, it is public sex between men that has provoked the most debate. In 1991 park rangers closed the roads in the upper Griffith Park area to motorists. The same roads had long been the site for gay cruising, showing up in Rosa Von Praunheim's 1979 film Army of Lovers as well as John Rechy's 1967 novel, Numbers. While most gay community activists considered the 1991 closure an attempt to curb such activities, the rangers attributed the closure to road damage.

"Late last year, rangers painted the curb red along Griffith Park Drive between Mt. Hollywood Drive and Riverside Drive, an area used by thousands of men after having been displaced from the 1991 road closing. Again, contrary to claims of homophobia, rangers claimed eliminating parking along Griffith Park Drive was necessary to accommodate earth-moving trucks. Whatever the true reasons for red curbing Griffith Park Drive, the result of such actions is that an entire area of the park is now empty. There is no public in that part of the park any longer.

"Apart from the actions of park rangers, Los Angeles police have for many years arrested men for lewd behavior in Griffith Park. Perhaps the largest such arrest occurred in 1973 when 37 men were arrested at once along Vista Del Valle. However, rather than charging the men with lewd conduct, all 37 were arrested on the grounds of fire hazard. Flaming, perhaps?

"Today more and more men arrested on lewd conduct charges fight their convictions in court. In many cases, the accused men claim that undercover police solicited sex and then arrested them, an illegal tactic known as entrapment. When the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund this summer attempted to bring out into the open LAPD protocol on policing public sex, they were met with stone-walling from the City's District Attorney's Office.

"While gay politics in the '90s seems to have been reduced to traditional family values of queer marriage and gay soldiers, the legal establishment continues to act upon the notion that sex between men is a public threat (a prejudice supported by the 1986 Bowers vs. Hardwick Supreme Court decision). Consequently, one park ranger involved in police sweeps through public parks in Cleveland Ohio described the goal of law enforcement, to "eliminate homosexual behavior from the parks."

Even within the lesbian and gay community, activists support the policing of gay public sex as a deterrent against unsafe sex. Such moral panic gains wide-spread support despite studies which show that public sex is more apt to promote safe-sex practices than those which could lead to the transmission of HIV.

"In the midst of this on-going debate, men continue to come to the park for encounters with other men. These men represent a diverse group crossing boundaries of class, race, ethnicity and even sexuality. There are those who look upon the park as just another stop on some gay guide to LA: another place to wave the flag.

However, a politics which turns its back on the Park turns its back on the possibility of sexuality liberated from the grim clutches of identity. The consequence of which is the privatization of the flesh. Here in these humble groves where one can hear the echoes of a billion orgasms, desublimation produces our citizenry. Red curbs, police entrapment, surveillance cameras, moralizing Gay bourgeoisie and their egregious collusion with the state – our pleasure will tolerate these punitive measures no longer."