Your favorite virtue?
Honesty.
Your favorite qualities in a person.
Honesty, integrity, and a willingness to “give back.”
Your chief characteristic.
Enthusiasm and a positive outlook.
What you appreciate most in your friends.
Their unconditional love.
Where would you like to live?
In a villa in Tuscany.
Your main fault.
Wearing my heart on my sleeve.
Your favorite occupation.
Anything where I can help my community.
Your idea of happiness.
Sundays in Paris.
Your idea of misery?
Being bored.
If not yourself, who would you be?
Gandhi.
Your favorite color?
Blue.
Your heroes in real life?
My parents, Harvey Milk, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Susan B. Anthony, other crusaders for human rights of the disenfranchised.
What are your favorite authors?
James Joyce, William Faulkner, and Robert Lacey.
What characters in history do you most dislike?
Dictators: Hitler, Idi Amin, Gadaffi, Saddam Hussein, et al.
Your favorite food and drink?
Italian food and good red wine to go with it.
What do you hate the most?
Dishonesty, oppression, and evil.
The reform you admire the most?
The states that have voted for full equal rights for LGBT persons.
The natural talent you’d like to be gifted with?
Clairvoyance.
How do you wish to die?
In my sleep.
What is your present state of mind?
Extremely happy and optimistic.
Irwin Drucker is Director of LGBT Diversity at IBM, and a graduate of both the Stern School of Business at NYU and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Among other service and not-for-profit organizations, he is a member of the Board of Directors of both the Pride Center at Equality Park and the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.