Harvey Fierstein is one of the ‘Bros’ and kinkier than ever

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At 70 years old, Harvey Fierstein is showing no signs of slowing down. Earlier this year, the Brooklyn native and four-time Tony Award winner released the memoir I Was Better Last Night, which quickly became a New York Times best-seller. This summer, his hit musical Kinky Boots (featuring music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper) returns to New York City, proving Fierstein still has soles with soul.

Fierstein’s book spans decades, tracing his personal and professional life from the Theatre of the Ridiculous and a role in Andy Warhol’s only play to the early years of the LGBTQ rights movement, the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, and triumphs on both stage and screen. His first Broadway appearance and writing credit, Torch Song Trilogy (recently streamlined into a two-act play and revived on Broadway starring Michael Urie), was a watershed moment for queer representation in the commercial theater.

It would be nearly two decades before Fierstein returned to the Broadway stage as…

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