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I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.

The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids.

I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered.

Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so it's probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.

In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom.

I would love to be an example to young LGBTQ kids everywhere. I remember growing up and feeling like nobody in the media accurately represented me, and when they did, it was always made to seem like a bad thing.

You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.