 ", "Open a New Window", "We Need a Little Christmas," and "Bosom Buddies" from "Mame"; and "Tap Your Troubles Away", "I Won't Send Roses" and "Time Heals Everything" from "Mack & Mabel".His "I am what I am," written for "La Cage aux Folles", became a gay pride anthem.According to the Washington Post, Herman's 1983 "La Cage aux Folles", which centered on a gay couple whose son is about to marry the daughter of a conservative family, "arrived during the height of the AIDS epidemic and helped put gay life into the cultural mainstream at a time when many gay men were being stigmatized."