My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Bio: Frederick Pei Li was a Chinese-American physician. He was born in Canton, China, and raised in New York City, where his parents operated a Chinese restaurant after war. His father is war hero Li Hanhun.
