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Harvey Fierstein

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.

Harvey Fierstein

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Harvey Fierstein is saying that his play was criticized because people believed it didn’t honestly represent the reality of AIDS, since none of the characters actually had the disease. However, the play focused on the impact and fear of AIDS on people's lives, showing how the idea of the illness was already causing significant emotional and social change.

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