the full speech is something to see & is one of the reasons it is good to have a trans member of congress

youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...

I'm sad he's gone but man- what a life. You can't do it much better than he did.

Also he worked most of his life as one of the most highly regarded mathematicians in the country. Music and comedy were just a hobby.

And here he is teaching American kids to treat refugees with respect in the 1960s: