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.

He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from Pratt in 1973. Fierstein appeared three times in "The Haunted Host" by Robert Patrick: in Boston in 1975 and at La MaMa and then Off-Broadway in 1991. in Andy Warhol's only play Pork.

Harvey Forbes Fierstein (born June 6 1952) is an American actor and playwright noted for the distinction of winning Tony Awards for both writing and originating the lead role in his long-running play Torch Song Trilogy about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family as well as writing the award-winning book to the musical La Cage aux Folles.