we ve perhaps talked enough about captain kirk. we ve just talked about boldness and here s a thought for you ijust think in your activism, you ve reflected a great deal on the different causes that you ve fought for over the years. you didn t, for a long time, fight for perhaps the cause most dear to your own heart that is gay rights, equality for gay people, because you were a gay actor in hollywood for an awful long time who stayed in the closet. why? because i wanted to be an actor. i passionately wanted to be an actor. when i was a teenager, my heart throb was a handsome, young blonde actor named tab hunter. he was starring in almost every warner. he had a warner bros contract, every movie coming from the warner bros studio battle cry, damn yankees. i went and saw every one of them until he was exposed, by one of our scandal sheets as being gay, and suddenly he disappeared. it was forcefully made.
i just think in your activism, you ve reflected a great deal on the different causes that you ve fought for over the years. you didn t, for a long time, fight for perhaps the cause most dear to your own heart that is gay rights, equality for gay people, because you were a gay actor in hollywood for an awful long time who stayed in the closet. why? because i wanted to be an actor. i passionately wanted to be an actor. when i was a teenager, my heart throb was a handsome, young blonde actor named tab hunter. he was starring in almost every warner. he had a warner bros contract, every movie coming from the warner bros studio battle cry, damn yankees. i went and saw every one of them until he was exposed, by one of our scandal sheets as being gay,
because i wanted to be an actor. i passionately wanted to be an actor. when i was a teenager, my heart throb was a handsome, young blonde actor named tab hunter. he was starring in almost every warner. he had a warner bros contract, every movie coming from the warner bros studio battle cry, damn yankees. i went and saw every one of them until he was exposed, by one of our scandal sheets as being gay, and suddenly he disappeared. it was forcefully made. it forcefully made me understand that you cannot be gay and be hired as an actor. and so i spent my childhood behind barbed wire fences, but as an adult, i self imposed an invisible barbed wire fence on myself.