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  • >> ONE OF THE THINGS YOU CHANGED

  • ABOUT THE COMPANY IS THAT IT DIDN'T HAVE A CHARITABLE

  • COMPONENT BEFORE AND YOU'VE MADE THAT AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE

  • WORK YOU DO FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES.

  • >> RIGHT.

  • >> Stephen: YOU, YOURSELF CAME OUT AS GAY RECENTLY.

  • WAS THAT AN UPGRADE OR JUST A FEATURE THAT HAD NOT BEEN TURNED

  • ON?

  • ( LAUGHTER ) ( APPLAUSE )

  • BEFORE.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) AND THE REASON I ASK, THE REASON

  • I ASK IS THAT EXPERIENCE OF GROWING UP IN ALABAMA AS SORT OF

  • A RESIDENT OUTSIDER BECAUSE OF YOUR SEXUALITY, DID THAT INFORM

  • IN ANY WAY YOUR TRYING TO HELP PEOPLE WHO ARE IN HARDSHIP

  • AROUND THE WORLD?

  • >> IT DID, YEAH.

  • IN ALL HONESTY, EVERY DAY I COME TO WORK I HAVE RIGHT IN FRONT OF

  • MY DESK I HAVE A PHOTO OF ROBERT KENNEDY AND A PHOTO OF DR. KING,

  • AND EVERY DAY I SORT OF ASK MYSELF-- IT WAS DR. KING'S QUOTE

  • THAT SAID, "LIFE'S MOST PERSISTENT AND URGENT QUESTION

  • IS 'WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR OTHERS?

  • '" AND IT BECAME SO CLEAR TO ME KIDS WERE GETTING BULLIED IN

  • SCHOOL.

  • KIDS WERE GETTING DISCRIMINATED AGAINST.

  • KIDS WERE EVEN BEING DISCLAIMED BY THEIR OWN PARENTS THEY NEEDED

  • TO DO SOMETHING, AND THAT WHERE I VALUED MY PRIVACY

  • SIGNIFICANTLY, I FELT THAT I WAS VALUING IT TOO FAR ABOVE WHAT I

  • COULD DO FOR OTHER PEOPLE.

  • AND SO I WANTED TO TELL EVERYONE MY TRUTH.

  • AND MANY PEOPLE ALREADY KNEW, AND SO TO MANY PEOPLE IT WAS NO

  • REVELATION.

  • IT WAS LIKE THIS-- IT'S LIKE DISCOVERING SOMETHING ON YURKS

  • iPHONE IT'S ALWAYS DONE BUT YOU YOU DIDN'T QUITE KNOW IT, RIGHT?

  • ( LAUGHTER ) >> Stephen: INTERESTING,

  • INTERESTING.

  • >> AND SO, YOU KNOW, IT WASN'T A REVELATION TO A LOT OF PEOPLE

  • THEY WORK WITH.

  • BUT IT WAS MAYBE TO THE BROADER WORLD.

  • AND I FELT A TREMENDOUS RESPONSIBILITY TO DO IT.

>> ONE OF THE THINGS YOU CHANGED

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