Video: Meredith Baxter and Clay Aiken are honored at Human Rights Campaign in North Carolina

Meredith Baxter was honored at the Human Rights Campaign gala dinner in Raleigh, N.C. on Saturday. She’s wonderfully articulate and funny and said of her coming out: “My big public moment was a big news item for about five minutes… I owe a major debt of gratitude to Tiger Woods.”

Clay Aiken also gave a terrific speech with the recurring theme of “It’s about damned time” including it being about damned time for him to come out publicly: “The power of truth and living honestly is very liberating. So what the hell took me so long? … I realized that the time for waiting has passed.”