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Hello, boys. How are you all? I just love boys. [...] Hello. Are you here alone? Who are you with? ...A woman? At my show? ...We'll make believe. It's theatre.

— Harvey Fierstein This Is Not Going to Be Pretty, Live at the Bottom Line (1995)

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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

You’d probably just lost your virginity, I’d probably just lost count.

This Is Not Going to Be Pretty, Live at the Bottom Line (1995)

I live in a small fictional town in Connecticut.

This Is Not Going to Be Pretty, Live at the Bottom Line (1995)

To the delight of millions of little children, the Santa in New York's great parade will be half of a same-sex couple. And guess who the other half will be? Me! Harvey Fierstein, nice Jewish boy from Bensonhurst, dressed in holiday finery portraying the one and only Mrs. Claus.

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