The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.

There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.

The message of transformation and how we all can live from our heart, not just from our head, was a very important message for me to learn in my own life.

Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets.

To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do

The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.

Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be.