I'm 40 and I've Had a Lot of Challenges in My Life and I Think It's My Differences That Are Source of Strength

"It's taken me 47 years to really really understand that actually it's my differences that are source of strength and that's really been the journey of my life is just accepting first accepting myself," he says. "I think there was a time when I used to think about all of these little elements of my identity not little elements the fundamental elements ofMy identity being brown being muslin being gay, smaller than everybody in a room wherever I went."