What difference does it make if I bash your head open because of your race or sexual orientation? It doesn't matter. Your head is broken open. The reason I did it should be of less concern than my actions.

This is something that can affect all of us, regardless of age, sex, race, or sexual orientation.

From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation.

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.

There was no single gay point of view. Like skin color or gender or any of those arbitrary, sometimes artificial, difference sexual orientation didn't make us all the same. But it did affect us. It had to.

I've never denied my sexual orientation. I just don't make a point of it. It isn't what I do, ... Clearly, I'm known for the work I've done on trade and Social Security.