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Culture has become one of the last elements of our identity. We have to act in favor of cultural diversity abroad as well as at home, we need strong cultural diplomacy but we have to create it.

There is no debate whether we need a cultural policy or not. We do need it, but there are different ways of doing it.

Today, nobody cares about European culture. We have a tradition, a vision, a culture of the past, we have legacy, but we don't have a present culture and we don't have a future.

Bureaucracy progresses at its own pace. That is to say, slowly.

History proceeds and is being written.

Not all Englishmen are homosexual.

The idea of coming out is not a natural one in Asia as it goes against the whole tradition and the morals of Confucianism. What gays frequently do in Asia is they ‘come home’: they bring their partners home, into their family, once they are a stable couple, and things are therefore known without being spoken. That is our way here of becoming gay. The Asian way.

The link with the black question is obvious. I compare homophobia to apartheid. And that is why we must do everything to encourage the universal decriminalization of homosexuality.

There is no such thing as an “African man” or any uniquely African values—it is diversity that has created Africa’s greatest wealth and its identity.

The two most dramatic new things homosexuals face in Africa are, first, Christian neoevangelicalism, which is often imported or inspired by the United States, and, second, political Islam, modeled on Iran or Saudi Arabia.

The West has no monopoly on gay rights, nor does the East or the South own the privilege of homophobia.

You can create a real geopolitics of LGBT rights based as much on languages as on cultural boundaries.