COMMENT Many people, especially heterosexuals, mistakenly believe that the gay rights movement is only about gay people. They have ignored the fact that our lives in society are highly intertwined. As John Donne beautifully wrote, “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less... any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind...”