In a country like America, there are places, many states here still where coming out means you lose your job, where coming out means division, where it means potentially abuse.

You can't be a part-time man of principle.

I don't need to think that I'm being loomed over my shoulder in order to behave in a way that's moral.

I think it's too easy to just say that there is a direct and necessary conflict between black identity and gay identity. I think it's more nuanced than that simply because I think black is a color and then people layer on top of it all kinds of socio-cultural elements.

We need to accept that some people are camp and some people are butch. Some people are pretty and some people are average, but we all fit.

I think in an ideal world celebrities do have a responsibility in many different areas to be role models.

In my experience, it's only people who don't play sport at a professional level who think that there is anything remotely erotic about a locker room.