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 Newsweek, 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 my idea of who I was and who the gay people I was meeting didn't match up with what I was being told it was supposed to be," he says.
Fierstein reflects on this positive unique queer perspective and more in his new memoir I Was Better Last Night (Penguin Random House).