Harvey Fierstein

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

"I’ve been travelling a lot. My boyfriend and I, we just went to Santa Fe. You know, the one named after the gay saint. Has anybody ever been to Santa Fe? …did you know it was a desert? I didn’t know i…"

"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."

"Do you remember at the presidential convention where they nominated Bush? Did you know what song they played to bring Bush on stage? No. “The Best of Times” from La Cage aux Folles. I said some fag pu…"

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

"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 …"

"We had great sex, but we argued politics. Now we enjoy politics and argue sex."

"See, I went to an all-gay high school. Art and Design. Now the truth is it wasn’t really all gay, but they bused them in, it was the law. So I went to this high school, I had friends like Pablo. Pablo…"