Roy cohn was he gay
In Tony Kushner’s play Angels of America, the character Roy Cohn depicts a complicated version of masculinity, that he exhibits through brash dialogue and a big ego, but he says certain sexual things that make it plain that he is a part of the gay scene he has so much hatred for. In Act 1. Scene 2 when Roy says “I wish I was an octopus, a fucking octopus. Eight loving arms and all those suckers…” (Kushner 11). The underlying sexual tone is evident with words like “loving” and “sucking” which are sensual words Kushner uses to indicate the hidden queer life that Roy lives. Despite this Roy relentlessly tries to distance himself from any queerness that could be associated with him by enforcing the masculine elements of himself. After existence told he has AIDS Roy defends himself by claiming that he is, “a heterosexual man…who fucks around with guys” (Kushner 47). Since Roy presents himself as a straight man but he’s actually a closeted gay guy the internalized homophobia and the hatred that he has of himself has manifested into a persecution of people he thinks are wrong.
One example of this is his part in the death of Ethel Rosenberg. In Act. 1 Scene 5 Roy proudly exclaims, “I
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Where’s my Roy Cohn?
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This quote above is actually in the title of another doc that came out in 2019 about Roy Cohn, a dude who at the very beginning of his legal career was Senator Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel, and instrumental in the violent sentencing of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to the electric chair for espionage.
An outrageously psychopathic political fixer of the darkest talents and highest litigious caliber is now growing in posthumous infamy with each new month of Trump presidency, as he was Donald J.’s longtime lawyer and mentor, and everything the real estate developer, turned reality star, turned the 45th president of the Unites States learned about wielding power came from Machiavelli himself (with apologies to the actual Niccolò).
Let me sum it up for you: youwin, at all costs.
Peter Manso, who interviewed him for Playboy magazine, sums it up too – Roy never had a solo relationship in his animation, only allegiances. The key ones which this doc delves into, even the closest ones, never really got to know anything about him as a human being except the minutia of their immediate transactions,
History shows how evil Roy Cohn really was. Described as “flamboyant” and “ruthless,” Cohn was a lawyer who helped send Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to their deaths; made a name for himself as Chief Counsel for Senator Joseph McCarthy; defended mafia kingpins, and had a protégé in Donald Trump. He even lost the Lionel train empire after taking it over. He never admitted he was a homosexual or that he had contracted AIDS.
Matt Tyrnauer’s detailed and layered documentary, “Where’s My Roy Cohn” — that titular quote is Trump’s — deep dives into the life and times of the singularly hateful gentleman. He was a “political puppeteer,” pulling strings and manipulating the system to his advantage. He loved power and wielding it. The film opens Oct. 4 at the Landmark Ritz Five.
Tyrnauer elegantly traces Cohn’s rise and downfall decade-by-decade, showing how he was involved at key turning points in history. Cohn made his career on the backs of the Rosenbergs and urged Judge Irving Kaufman to pursue the death penalty in their case. Cohn then worked with J. Edgar Hoover at the FBI who recommended him to be Chief Counsel for Joseph McCarthy and his anti-Communist hearings. He investigated homosexual
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By David L. Marcus
“Americans have brief attention spans,” Roy Cohn told me when I asked why allegations about his vicious tactics as a lawyer didn’t stick to him or his infamous clients. He intuitively understood our national ADHD before anyone even uttered the phrase.
Roy knew that the media and the widespread don’t usually contain the time or the interest to dig into complex matters. He made that remark in 1986, when he insisted he was suffering from “liver cancer.” Six months later, he died of complications from AIDS.
As a journalist—and as Roy’s cousin—I’ve been trying, and often failing, to explain Roy Marcus Cohn since the late 1970s and early 1980s. That’s when Roy was teaching Donald Trump the dark arts of politics, and representing the owners of Studio 54, and counseling everyone from New York Archbishop Cardinal Terence Cooke to Mafia boss Carmine Galante.
Roy was my father’s first cousin, my cousin once removed (almost everyone in my family wished he’d be permanently removed). I shadowed Roy for a magazine story when I was a journalist. I first got to recognize him when I was a pupil at Brown University writing a manuscript about the Army-McCarthy hearings.
Director Matt Tyrnauer first became interested in Roy Cohn in 2016, while he was watching archival footage for his film STUDIO 54. As Cohn was the attorney for Studio 54 owners, he appeared often. “I’ve never seen anyone leap off the screen like Cohn,” says Tyrnauer. “I kept asking myself, ‘Why hasn’t there been a Roy Cohn documentary?’” After thinking it over, Tyrnauer realized that a Roy Cohn motion picture would probably only be of wide interest if Trump won the Presidency. “When Trump won, Roy Cohn went from a footnote in history to become the modern Machiavelli who [helped] create a President of the Joined States,” says Tyrnauer.
Tyrnauer wrote the treatment for his Cohn documentary the next day. “I wanted to connect the dots for a general audience and show them who Cohn was and how he got us to where we are today,” says Tyrnauer. “While he might seem a relatively obscure figure in our political history, he has an outsized role in fashioning the predicament we’re in right now politically. As Gore Vidal said, ‘We live in the Combined States of Amnesia.’ I want this film to be an antidote to that.”
A few weeks later, I was in Recent York and ran into the writer and investigative journalis