Tony Nominee Harvey Fierstein Calls for Help for Transgender Girl in NY Times Piece
Today's New York Times featured a piece written by 2014 Tony Award Nominee Harvey Fierstein Casa Valentina. The piece tells the horrifying story of a teenage girl referred to as simply Jane Doe to protect her identity as a youth who has been sexually and physically abused by family members as well as staff members of various institutions and residencies she's been placed in. Fierstein hypothesizes that the reasoning …