Original sentence: A recent example of political punishment was the outing of Edward Schrock, a Republican Congressman from Virginia, by gay rights activist Michael Rogers.A separate motive is to further awareness of the presense of gay people and political issues, thus showing that many major figures are gay or lesbian and that being gay and lesbian is not unspeakable.Motives for "outing" a person include personal malice, commercial gain, political punishment, and journalistic reportage.The people outed are most often public figures.The term derives from the expression "coming out," which has been used among gay men, lesbians and bisexuals for many years to mean "revealing one's sexual or gender orientation to others," but is also used in the context of other identities or even activities
Edited sentence: A recent example was the outing of Edward Schrock, a Republican Congressman from Virginia, by gay rights activist Michael Rogers.A separate motive is to further awareness of the sexual interest, thus showing that major figures have such an interest in order to advance a cause or prove it is not fringe or abnormal.Motives for "outing" a person include personal malice, commercial gain, or political punishment.The term derives from the expression "coming out," which has been used among gay men, lesbians and bisexuals for many years to mean "revealing one's gender orientation to others," but is also used in the context of other aspects of sexuality such as transvestitism, BDSM, and other paraphilias, and indeed any sexual choice frowned upon by applicable cultural viewpoints