Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Forbes Fierstein is an American actor, playwright, and voice actor. Fierstein has won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his own play Torch Song Trilogyand the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for playing Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. He also wrote the book for the musical La Cage aux Folles, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, and wrote the book for the Tony Award-winning Kinky Boots...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStage Actor
Date of Birth6 June 1954
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Last season, there were 27 gay roles on television - and not one was played by a gay person. So I'm a little sensitive to that stuff.
Is a gay play a play that has sex with other plays?
The next time you feel you have to say, "I love you" to someone, say it to yourself - and see if you believe it.
When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied equal protection under the law, we have to admit that we're under attack. This is not pragmatic politics at work. These are the policies of bias, exclusion and unfairness.
When I went into 'Fiddler,' I wondered about the response I'd get - the backlash because I'm openly gay. There was none. I toured Canada and America, and not one single review suggested that I played the role gay or that I seemed anything but Tevye.
CBS really wants me on TV. That's their aim. My aim is to have an all-gay sitcom someday, with heterosexuals as token guest stars. Let them be the next-door neighbors for a change.
There's nothing I need from anyone except love and respect, and anyone who can't give me those two things has no place in my life.
There are easier things in life than being a drag queen. But I ain't got no choice. Try as I may, I just can't walk in flats.
To me, if a heterosexual has a right to do it, then I have a right to do it. And if it's important to the gay youth - who are now setting the agenda - then its important to me.
With Russia about to hold the Winter Games in Sochi, the country is open to pressure. American and world leaders must speak out against Mr. Putin's attacks and the violence they foster. The Olympic Committee must demand the retraction of these laws under threat of boycott.
I don't believe we need to take millions and millions of dollars and build churches and stuff... I think we could build houses instead.
I didn't want to be part of a touring company they dropped off.
Maybe when you need the perfect gift for John Waters,
With her understanding of 'Fiddler's' important place in theatrical history, I am positive she will uphold that tradition excitingly.