Things Change
IF THERE WERE A FORREST Gump of modern gay history, it would have to be Tony-award-winning actor and writer Harvey Fierstein. From taking to the streets in the days following the Stonewall riots in 1969 when he was just 15 years old to the gay rights movement of the 1970s to his rise to fame as one of the most prominent (if not the most prominent) out gay voice on Broadway and in Hollywood at the height of the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, Fierstein has been there for it all.
“Are you aware when you’re living your life, what the perspective is? Of course not,” Fierstein tells , reflecting on how his own experience as a young man didn’t exactly jibe with the mainstream media idea that all queer people had to be either sad or scary. “I knew something was going on. I knew that (Penguin Random House). When reading the book, one can’t help but hear Fierstein’s singular, gravelly voice.
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