I’m reminded of one of Roy Cohn’s monologues in Angels in America.
Your problem is that you are hung up on words, on labels: “gay”, “homosexual”, “lesbian.” You think they tell you who a person sleeps with, but they don’t tell you that. Like all labels, they refer to one thing and one thing only: Where does a person so identified fit in the food chain? In the pecking order. Not ideology or sexual taste, but something much simpler: clout. Who owes me favors. Not who I fuck or who fucks me, but who will pick up the phone when I call. To someone who doesn’t understand this, homosexual is what I am because I sleep with men, but this is wrong. Homosexuals are not men who sleep with other men. Homosexuals are men who, in 15 years of trying, can’t get a pissant anti-discrimination bill through City Council. They are men who know nobody, and who nobody knows.
Angels in America is a very good play that, I think, has only gotten better over time.
HBO produced it as a TV miniseries with Al Pacino playing Roy Cohn back in 2003. There’s also a 2017 revival with Nathan Lane in the role. Either are 100% worth checking out.
Thanks for the recommend, I’m looking forward to watching it. I don’t know how I missed this, it was back when I still assumed everything HBO produced was good.
I’m reminded of one of Roy Cohn’s monologues in Angels in America.
The real Roy Cohen didn’t consider himself gay, he just liked to sexually dominate young blond men. That was a sign of his masculinity.
It should be noted that when he mentored Donald Trump and Roger Stone, they were both young blonde men.
Holy fuck that’s profound.
Angels in America is a very good play that, I think, has only gotten better over time.
HBO produced it as a TV miniseries with Al Pacino playing Roy Cohn back in 2003. There’s also a 2017 revival with Nathan Lane in the role. Either are 100% worth checking out.
Thanks for the recommend, I’m looking forward to watching it. I don’t know how I missed this, it was back when I still assumed everything HBO produced was good.
I haven’t seen the play, but the HBO production was INCREDIBLE.