I just think that gay men have much better taste than any straight man I have met. I have never gotten any grief about having a good time, being unapologetic, and irreverent from a gay man.
I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.