"All the reading I was ever given to do in school was always heterosexual. Every movie I saw was heterosexual and I had to do the translation. I had to translate it to my life rather than seeing my life. Which is why when people say to me, ‘Your work is not really gay work, it’s universal.’ And I say, ‘Up yours.’ You know? It’s gay and that you can take it and to translate it for your own life is very nice but, at last, I don’t have to do the translating, you do."

—Harvey Fierstein (via tobiaszacharyziegler)