Being homosexual, black, asian, female, bald, fat or bearded does not make you anything. Of the limited resources available in the career field, some are 'alternative'. To compete, HP needs to attract and maintain the best employees. Some very bright people are gay.
But the diversity programs are not limited to only to the homosexual community. There are very bright Asian, Indian, Hispanic and other engineers, technicians, programmers, and others who come from a background different than our own. The Diversity programs (Motorola, IBM, Apple, Intel, AMD, HP, Agilent, NEC, Honda, Samsung, et al) are designed to create an atmosphere in which different world views are welcome, and are not treated in a hostile or disrespectful manner.
Well, you've been programmed correctly. Diversity programs, in general, suck. They go overboard, hamper creativity and stifle innovation.
I worked for one high tech company where, during attendence at diversity training of course, I was told that simply asking a women out was grounds for dismissal if she complained.
Pretty 1984ish if you ask me.