https://www.activistfacts.com/person/1360-bill-maher/

Comedian and host of the TV show Real Time With Bill Maher. He is also an active animal rights activist quoted as saying: “To those people who say, ‘My father is alive because of animal experimentation,’ I say, ‘Yeah, well, good for you. This dog died so your father could live.’ Sorry, but I am just not behind that kind of trade-off.”

https://www.activistfacts.com/organizations/15-farm-animal-reform-movement/

Farm Animal Reform Movement (FARM) is on the outer fringes of the animal-rights universe. Its membership adheres to a strict vegan diet, and its leadership generally regards meat as an unnecessary evil.

https://www.activistfacts.com/person/1347-alex-hershaft/

In addition to his work in the animal-rights movement, Alex Hershaft is also a vocal advocate for the bizarre community that has sprung up around deviant sexual fetishes. In the spring of 2000, Hershaft delivered two presentations to an “alternative lifestyles” convention called the Leather Leadership Conference, which was held at the Washington (D.C.) Plaza Hotel. The event’s brochure announced “workshops to improve the management skills of leaders and activists in the S&M (sadism & masochism)/Leather/Fetish community.” Hershaft’s contribution consisted of delivering lectures entitled “Winning Public Minds and Libidos” and “The Making of a BDSM Activist.” Shortly after the event, the Leather Leadership Conference quietly removed Hershaft’s name from the on-line conference program; the Internet, though, has a long memory: Google’s Internet archive still points to previous (complete) versions of the event’s schedule.

All of this, of course, raises one question: does Hershaft play his games with real leather? Somehow, we doubt it.