I think we should also consider the lengths to which someone like Travolta or Cruise have gone to hide their secret. They've both gone ferociously against those (who don't have the social power of a Margaret Cho or a Carrie Fisher) who have dared speak about their sexual identity. I see the words of Fisher and Cho as a way to protect those people who have been, whether justly or not who knows, ruined by speaking out about their experiences with those two stars.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"