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As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.

I'm not a minority: I'm a majority of one. We all are. To call someone a minority, you give them baggage, of not being full, or not being seen as full. All of us need to be seen as full human beings.

Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.

I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.

As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.

I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.

American Jews are no longer a homogenous minority; we come in all colors and from all corners of the world.

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.