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Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are.

Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the part of gays to resemble their straight neighbours.

A lot of people call me gay because they don't see me with anyone.

The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.

I was homophobic because I obviously didn't know that I was gay.

Some people think I am gay, which I think is awesome.

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

Personally speaking, growing up as a gay man before it was as socially acceptable as it is now, I knew what it was to feel different, to feel alienated and to feel not like everyone else. But the very same thing that made me monstrous to some people also empowered me and made me who I was.

Am I a homophobe? Look, I work in show business. I am awash in gay people, as colleagues and as friends.

I've been openly gay since I can remember.