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I am pro-freedom.

I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.

Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin.

I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.

I get stopped by people on the Upper West Side of Manhattan - actors, directors, people that I revere - who are closet conservatives who feel the same way but can't speak out. And they think I am fighting for them so they can come out of the closet eventually and express themselves without worrying about losing their jobs.

I'm for all kinds of gay rights. I'm almost like a gay man myself.

I think the moral majority and religious right have been shrinking and having not quite as loud a voice in America, and all of a sudden people are coming to their own realizations going, 'Joe down the street is gay and he's a great guy.'