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This project was initially conceived as a qualitative study investigating how current psychoanalysts think about gender and sexuality. As a second-year psychiatry resident considering psychoanalytic training, I was anxious about entering a community with so few QTBIPOC. On the other hand, much of my community organizing work drew inspiration from literature that had roots in psychoanalysis. I decided to conduct this study to reconcile this discrepancy, hoping my findings might be useful to others within and outside the psychoanalytic community. I conducted semi-structured interviews with 15 adult and 15 adult/child psychoanalysts (12 cis men, 16 cis women, 2 non-binary; 22 straight, 5 gay, 2 bisexual, 1 questioning; all white) who had completed psychoanalytic training and worked with at least one LGBTQ-identifying patient. In addition to sharing my findings using reflexive thematic analysis, I share my personal experience of the process. Drawing on queer of color critique, I use the metaphor of dance to illustrate how the participants and I reenacted familiar oppressive dynamics. I conclude by situating this project as an interpersonal representation of psychoanalysis’ ongoing participation in oppression.