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.

I grew up thinking the best job in the world would be a Jedi and being a psychologist is the closest thing I could get, so I wanted to be a Jedi and I don't want to be a Sith, so that is what keeps me on the straight and narrow.

I wasn't going to let Jerry Sloan embarrass me, because basketball had a proper role in my life. I suspected my basketball philosophy wasn't the bottom line anyway.

I'm a nerd. I like to sit in the library. I don't like to sweat.

I suppose I knew I was gay at age 11 or so.

Knowing yourself, knowing where you want to get, combining those things gives you the pragmatic steps.

I would just never want to have someone come out for the greater good who was a celebrity and then find them slipping into like Lohanville with alcohol or drugs or something else just because they couldn't cope.